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HELIOTYPE PRINTING CO. BOSTON, MASS. 



THE TOBACCO SLAVE 



-AND- 



How to be Liberated from its Fetters. 

77b 

Its Debasing, Debauching, Killing Power 

AS OBSERVED THROUGH A LAPSE OF HALF 
A CENTURY, BY 

DR. C. A. GREENE, 

GRADUATE OF THE BERKSHIRE MEDICAL COLLEGE 
OF PITTSFIELD, MASS. OF 1848. 

13 1890, 

- 3,0 U% 

Member of the New England Historical Soc 

ty, and the association of the old 

Hawes School Boys, and of the 

Bostonian Society, and the 

Pilgrim Society of 

Plymouth, 

Mass. 

BOSTON, MASS. 1889. 



•""Res'?" 




Entered, according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1889, 

By Dr. C. A. Greene, 

In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C. 



All rights reserved* 



P. L. Schriftgiesser & Co., Printers, Boston. 



INTRODUCTORY. 



During the last fifty years, I have been collecting, 
collating and condensing articles from every con- 
ceivable source on the above subjects, intending 
sometime to place them before the people in the in- 
terest of humanity. Only a portion of this collec- 
tion is embodied in the within work, and I now 
throw this little volume before the reading public, 
knowing that it is illy put together, confessing that 
my professional duties alone occupy all my time 
and gives me no opportunity (had I the ability), 
to make a perfect work. 

I do not make any pretentions to being a book- 
maker. No profession (on my part) to use eloquent 
oratorical or finished sentences. The whole desire 
is, in so arranging my conceptions and the experi- 
ences of others in a plain, impressive, axiomatic 
waj^sonoonecan read them without being wholly 
satisfied with the truthfulness of mv conclusions. 



PREFACE AND PREDICTION. 



In order to settle the two questions of " Does to- 
bacco in any and every form ill which itisconsumed 
injure mankind?" and " Can you determineby look- 
ing at a man who uses it (either as snuff, or in the 
form of cigars, cigarettes, or who chews it), how 
much it has affected, perniciously, his body?" I 
wrote out on the 16th of June, 1886, six names of 
some of the most prominent men in the city of Har- 
risburg, Pa. (where m\ r offices were then located as 
a practitioner of medicine), who would die within a 
year from the poisonous effects of nicotine. All of 
the men mentioned were, at the time of the above 
writing, attending to their various avocations. 
Mr. Wilson, Mayor of Harrisburg, Daniel Eppley, 
president ot the Farmers' Bank, A. Fahnstock, 
John Shoemaker, ex-Mayor Boas and ex-Mayor 
Herman composed the group of names. Three of 
them died within the year, two of them in 1887, viz: 
May 23, Mr. Boas, and November 14, Mr. Fahn- 
stock, and John Shoemaker in the spring of 1889. 
He stopped the use of tobacco in 1886, which pro- 
longed his life. Gen. Grant in the same manner 
extended his life long enough to finish his memoirs. 



6 TOBACCO SLAVE. 

I am more than extremely anxious to set this 
volume afloat amid the untold and uncounted 
styles of literature in our land, hoping it may be- 
come so popular and so well-known that the vic- 
tims may become aware of the vicinity of the "hole 
of the cocatrice," and the alarming proximity to 
the various diseases within described, and the pre- 
mature deaths that follow; and that the rising 
generations of America may let tobacco severely 
alone. I am fully and advisedly aware of the terri- 
fying facts that millions of my race are slowly and 
regularly sapping the strength, life and vitality 
of their systems, and that tobacco is steadily pro- 
ducing more diseased bodies and more deaths than 
from the use of all intoxicants combined. If the 
Prohibition party is composed of true philanthro- 
pists, they will at once investigate the startling 
statements herein made, and attach " No tobacco " 
to their anti-liquor platform; and in their crusade 
against rum and gin, fight with equal valor the 
other arch enemy of mankind, — nicotine. 

If there is no combined action of the intelligent 
men and women of our country against its use, we 
shaft in a few years degenerate physically, mentally 
and religiously into a heathenish condition. 

Beingextremely desirous of doing what is in my 
power to stop the further advancment of the nico- 
tine maelstrom which is devastating our fair coun- 
try, and to thwart the machinations of the devil, 
or some other evil genius who is trying to saturate 
the systems of Americans with the subtle, insidu- 



TOBACCO SLAVE. 7 

ous poison of this filthy, death-dealing weed, and 
to throw all the information possible before the 
growers of, and dealers in the nasty tasting herb, and 
to raise the greatest obstacles within my reach to 
its continuance from a philanthropic stand-point, 
has caused the issue of the within brochure, which 
is devoted and dedicated to the innumerable victims 
of nicotine throughout Christendom. 



ESPECIAL NOTICE. 



Agents wanted in every town, village and 
city in the United States to sell this book. 

Extraordinary inducements offered. For par- 
ticulars, address the Author. 



INDEX. 



Action of Tobacco 97 

Albums as Bribes 53 

Amount Consumed 58 

Anti-Christian 96 

Artificial Appetite 95 

Bad Breath 100 

Bad Habit 76, 7% 

Boy Falls a Victim 113 

Burmese Custom 86 

Bacteria in Snuff 71 

Brain Poisoning j$ 

Boston Globe on Spitting 79 

Cancer 47, 73 

Cigarettes 72 

Crazy from 112 

Crusade against no 

Infatuated with . . 113 

Leprosy from in 

Victims of . . . . . . . . . . 112, 113 

Cigarette Paper 85 

Concerning the Habit 100 

Crusade against Tobacco no 

Death of Delmonico 98 

Dr. Hitchcock * . . . . 97 

Drugs in Tobacco . . 89, 121 

9 



io INDEX. 

EaHy Training 93 

Effects of Smoking . . 96, 115 

Enlarged Heart 44 

Eczema 48 

Emunctories .... . . 88 

Girl's Passion, A 98 

Good Position, A ..... 96 

Habits 24, 96 

Hogarth's Gin Lane ........... 50 

Horrible Death 122 

Horrid Business ............. 72 

How Quick it Kills 96 

Humiliating 28 

Hygiene in Schools 83 

Important 122 

Inconsistency 65 

Its 111 Effects 99 

Its Origin 58 

Impure Air .............. 87 

Juvenile Smokers 74 

Leprosy from Tobacco ill 

Liquor and Tobacco Sellers 119 

Mexico, Its use in .... 65 

Mexican Habit 101 

Morocco Against the Habit 103 

My Convictions . 124 

Nations Using . 63 

Nicotine 26, 97 

No Smokers 101 

Not Sweating 88 



INDEX. ii 

Opium Smoking 89 

Paralysis 71 

Persons Employed 72 

Physiological Item 87 

Physiology in Schools 83 

Pox, The 68 

Pores 88 

Poisoned by Handling 120 

Prince and his Pipe 69 

Reduction in Size 89 

Sabbath, The . 90 

Saliva, The .............. 18 

School Children S$ 

Smoker's Heart 69 

Smoker's Catarrh 102 

Smoking Cars . ..... . . . . . . . . . 53 

Smoking a Nuisance 108 

Smoking in Holland . . . . . 105 

Smoking in Russia ............ 106 

Smoking, Its Cost 75 

Snuff Dipping 104 

Snuffing 103 

Sore Throat 28 

Startling Statement 58 

Successful Men, Habits of . . «, 101 

Swiss Idea of Using 76 

Syphilis 68 

Teeth, The 21 

Temperance Schemes 31 

The Termination 120 



12 INDEX. 

Tobacco Cases 40 

Tobacco Cough 68 

Tobacco, History of 55 

Tobacco in 1764 . . 52 

Tobacco Thirty-five Years 45 

Tobacco, Use of 114 

Tobacco Twenty-three Years 44 

Tobacco Twenty Years 47 

Tobacco, Brief Treatise on 54 

Tobacco, U. S. Census for 1879 • • 61 

Tobacco Habit yy 

To Malmouthers 29 

Two Billion Cigars 65 

Unpleasant Occupation 118 

Voice, The 63 

Wasted Time 82 

What Smokers Use 117 

Yellow Moustache 83 



TOBACCO; 



Its Kindred Companions. 



ABOUT 1831 I signed an anti-rum, and anti-to- 
bacco pledge in Joy Fairchild's Church in South 
Boston, Mass. and the year before a temperance 
pledge in the Sunday School of the Park Street 
Church, on the corner of Park and Tremont 
Streets of the same city. A few years afterward 
my beloved teacher of the Hawes School, South 
Boston, (viz. Joseph Harrington) instituted an 
anti-swearing society, probably the first of its 
kind in the United States, and its beneficient effects 
spread like wild fire among the boys, and it soon 
became unpopular to use an oath in that portion 
of the city. So great was the alteration in the char- 
acter and actions of the boys, so influenced by a 
good determination to get rid of a bad habit, that 
the citizens noticed the marked moral change. 



16 TOBACCO SLAVE. 

The never to be forgotton philanthropist Hon. 
Amos Lawrence, in riding through this suburb dis- 
covered the absence of profanity, and calling up one 
of the boys and learning the cause, he sent his check 
for $100 to Mr. Harrington to be given to them 
to be used for any purpose for their enjo\ T ment. 
The members of the Society spent it in purchasing 
a nucleus of the first library in Hawes School. My 
name does not appear among the original members 
of the Society. The boys said sometimes I would, 
when excited, contract darn it into dam it, and hence 
I was on the probation seat for some thirty days 
when my name was placed upon the book as an 
anti-swearer. 

As a sign at a cross road indicates always the 
way to a certain town, so these pledges have 
ever been kept before my memory and always 
acted as barriers to any inclination to break either 
of them. Like guardian angels they have ap- 
peared at any hour of temptation. And as hu- 
man nature is much alike the world over, I would 
(had I the opportunity) present similar pledges to 
every member of the human family. I was then 
only a boy, ready to be warped out of shape, or 
kept in a correct manner of living, and as we know 
that "As the twig is bent so is the tree inclined. " 
So we must know that an early settlement of these 
all important questions is best for all the children 
in the universe. Our first impressions are usually 
lasting, and, hence the great need of producing 
good ones. From the above date I have been a 



TOBACCO SLAVE. 17 

constant witness to the numerous ills, crimes, etc. 
produced from the use of intoxicants and tobacco, 
and could I print all my collection of experiences 
upon the above subjects they would make a vast 
volume. I have been fondly wishing for many long 
years to bring together in concise form the list 
of multitudinous ills, crimes, annoyances and dis- 
eases produced from the use of tobacco. I have 
promised my patients and friends for a quarter of 
a century to sometime write out and print a por- 
tion of them. And first let me say that since 
1842 when I commenced the study of medicine I have 
given a deal of attention to this especial subject, and 
during all of my years of practice I have never met 
with a physician who has devoted much study to 
this most important theme. One prominent reason 
is that as the use of this weed has become so wide 
spread it is unpopular to speak or write against its 
use, and physicians as a class, like to sail with the 
tide. The\ r rarely take counter positions, and hence 
they have not taken up the matter. If any treatise 
or book has ever been printed by a physician on 
the mal-action of tobacco, I have never seen the 
work. Now I am well satisfied that if individuals 
and societies do not organize to show its ill effects 
to the world, that we shall drift still more rapidly 
towards a universal use of it. The rapid strides 
it has made in po pular favor i n mytime are appalling. 
In 1835 it was illegal to smoke a cigar or pipe in 
the streets of Boston, Mass. If such a law was 
now enacted and enforced, one quarter of our race 



18 TOBACCO SLAVE. 

would be imprisoned or fined. If the destruction of 
tobacco by smoking and chewing increases with 
the same rapidity during the next half century that 
it has since 1836 nearh r all of the citizens of the 
world and women and children will become its 
victims. 

Without making any pretense to write the ori- 
gin and history- of this vile product, or the many 
fruitless attempts to stop its progress by legisla- 
tive enactments, I propose to bring together in this 
book statistics and documents collected during the 
above 3 r ears, together with my own experiences, as 
found in my practice, in order to arrest the monster 
in his death-dealing mission. I candidly believe 
that the use of tobacco to-day in the United States 
is doing- more harm and killing- more victims than 
all of the alcoholic stimulants combined. And I 
trust my readers will understand that ray whole ob~ 
jcct (inanutshell) is to lay such an array of startling 
statistics and facts before them as to cause them to 
give up its use, if its victims, and to let it alone if 
they have never tasted its nastiness. 

THE SALIVA. 

Nature has constructed all parts ofours3 r stems in 
a wonderfulh r accurate manner; under each ear are 
two bodies, manufacturers of spit, called the paro- 
tid glands; under the tongue is another called sub- 
lingual. The object of these glands is to make from 
day to day the saliva necessary to keep the mouth 
or tongue lubricated, or moistened, and to mix with 



TOBACCO SLAVE. 19 

the food while being masticated, in order to assist 
in digestion. Now the very first chew of tobacco 
that enters the mouth, or the first inhalation of 
smoke, causes an irritation of these glands and all 
portions of the inner part of the mouth, and, in 
time, all of the mucous tissues in the nose, and in the 
ratio of using the poisonous weed, the inflammation 
increasesin extent, until it reaches all portions of the 
air pnssages; after a time the inflammation is changed 
to the. ulceration of the tissues, and they are disin- 
tegrated and gradually destroyed; swallowed or 
thrown out of the mouth with the saliva. The 
glands steadily increase in size, and the secretion 
becomes unnatural in quality and is increased in 
quantity. Probably five pounds would be a normal 
amount to be made and used in a day; habitual 
uses of the weed often make four quarts a days 
One of my patients saved and measured the amount 
thrown out during the waking hours of one day, and 
told me he had ejected from his mouth one gallon. 
This would be one hundred and twenty-eight 
ounces, and it required at least six pounds of blood 
tomakethis quantity-. Afteratimetheinflammation 
extends slowly down the windpipe into the lungs, 
and death from pneumonia or consumption ends 
the suicidal life. I have examined carefully thou- 
sands of throats of habitual users of tobacco, and 
I find the inflammation in every throat. Not a single 
exception. The tobacco is a sedative, acts like 
opium ; so when the throat looks like an old burn, 
full of ulcerated spots, and the tongue is full of cross 



20 TOBACCO SLAVE. 

cuts, and the palate is enlarged and elongated, and 
the rear portion of the mouth is full of corruption, 
there is usually little or no pain, and hence the vic- 
tim of this insiduous poison is unaware of the morbid 
horrible condition of his throat. His breath be- 
comes very offensive; he is a walking privy, and in 
conversation with his companions, they constantly 
smell the evidence of this filthy cesspool. 

The poisonous effects are noticed in some cases 
much more rapidh r than others. Some men loose 
their taste in a very few 3-ears, are affected w r ith 
catarrh, loss of hearing, and the vision is injured 
by its use. Others seem to use it with impunity 
for scores of years. The majority of mankind never 
devote any time to the study of physiology, hence, 
are not good judge's of their physical condition, 
suppose themselves well, when the machinery is 
badly out of order, hence when such men say: "I 
have used tobacco for years, it does not injure me." 
Their assertions are worthless. Of what earthly 
use would a man's opinion be concerning the Arctic 
ocean, if hehad never seen it, heard, orread about it ? 
The swallowing of the morbid saliva causes indiges- 
tion in thousands of cases, stops the formation of 
pure blood, and sooner or later all of the organs of 
the bod}- give way to the permeating subtle poison. 
The air in rooms of tobacco users becomes rapidly 
vitiated to the injury of innocent persons, and his 
own lungs are slowly ruined by the inhalation of 
the nicotine fumes, mixed with the exhalations of 
his putrid throat. 



TOBACCO SLAVE. 21 

THE TEETH. 

Hundreds of times I have been told by some un- 
fortunate, "I was informed that tobacco preserv- 
ed the teeth, and prevented toothache." I com- 
menced extracting teeth when a student in 1842 
and continued it up to 1882, and I say advisedly 
that millions of teeth are annually ruined by to- 
bacco. The nicotine turns them black. The 
teeth of all old chewers of the weed, are worn down 
like the teeth of an old, old horse, who has eaten 
nothing but whole corn for a lifetime. The crown 
of the tooth is worn off and the enamel discolored 
and destro3 r ed. Those who are stupid enough to 
carry pipes for hours in their mouth wear out ridges 
in the teeth by this asinine habit. God never in- 
tended a man's mouth as a smoke-hole, or as a 
recepticle for any fluid or substance that swallowed 
could not he converted into blood. 

Notwithstanding the fact that there is irritation, 
inflammation and an altered condition of the mucous 
membrane of the throat and adjoiningparts and they 
are being constantly injured and diseased by the use 
of this objectionable vegetable, no matter how it is 
used, whether as snuff, or smoked or chewed, yet 
all the organs are constantly fighting against the foe, 
trying to keep the parts in a normal condition. 
The recuperative power within us is very, very 
strong. Unfortunately, the action of the poison of 
nicotine is of a sedative nature. If the first chew 
or smoke would kill, then there would be no argu- 



22 TOBACCO SLAVE. 

ment in its favor, but God has so constructed our 
bodies that we can slowly accustom ourselves to 
any poison, no matter how virulent, so as to be able 
to increase the quantity used without killing us. 

The inhabitants of Lower Assyria eat arsenic 
in small quantities. Hundreds of thousands of Chi- 
nese, Japanese and Americans eat or smoke opium 
until a dose that would kill a person unaccustomed 
to it can be swallowed with comparative impu- 
nity. The world is full of persons who, in some 
way, make a bad use of their mouths. The nicotine 
sore throat is exceedingh- common; in many cases 
it degenerates into the epithelial cancer, the same 
as it did in Gen. Grant's. Four years before he died, 
when he was at Point Comfort, I wrote him and 
told him that when he began to go down he would 
do so suddenly; predicted his end, and told him I 
would gladlj r break up his habit of smoking and 
restore his health gratuitously. 

Although the nicotine throat looks like an old 
ulcerated burn, there is little or no pain and disturb- 
ance, only an occasional tickling, or a cough, which 
the uneducated dupe sa}-s is a slight cold; "I've 
taken a slight cold." The inflammation may take 
years before its descent into the windpipe, and air 
cells of the lungs is particularly noticeable, then 
comes the stich in the side, the sharp, quick pain, 
slight difficulty in respiration; hundreds of cells 
may look like the unfortunate throat, and } r et the 
imperfect respiration goes on, and the ill effects of 
nicotine slowly and surely pervades the body, and 



TOBACCO SLAVE. 23 

finally kills the victim. If he dies suddenly, the post 
mortem declaration is "Death from disease of the 
heart." More than one-half of all such sudden 
deaths are caused by tobacco. In 1876 I was prac- 
ticing in Philadelphia, and Gen. McKibbin, of the 
Girard House, introduced me to Gen. Imboden, 
formerly of Richmond, Va. who says "I have had 
for several years what I call a rupture of the heart. 
It comes often at night ; I think my heart has burst 
open. I lie conscious, but cannot move, expecting 
death every moment. I have consulted the experts 
of this city, New York, also in London, etc. No 
one can tell me my condition, or the name of my 
disease. Will you tell me?" I answered, " No ; 
but I think I can cure you." He went under my 
charge ; I stopped his use of tobacco, and in a few 
weeks the explosion was gone. He was one of the 
Commissioners at the Centennial of 1876 on tobacco. 
I stop from* five hundred to eight hundred persons 
ever} r year from its use. I cannot cure any afflic- 
tion of the body, and letthepatient continue theuse 
of the weed. I have stopped hundreds who have tried 
again and again to give up its use, but who lacked 
the power. Under m\- methods they have no desire 
for it in a few days. I remove the nicotine from the 
system in various ways, and destroy the appetite. 
I have stopped persons who have used it for sixty 
years, and who, when well, declare they would not, 
for anj' price, resume the habit. It often affects (in 
a few 3'ears) the memory, which usually returns in 
a few months under Omnipathic treatment. It al- 



24 TOBACCO SLAVE. 

ways affects the kidneys after a few } r ears' use; it 
sooner or later diseases every organ of the bod}', 
more or less, the same as a pound of Assafoetida 
would, in time, affect all the water in a huge tank, 
and I have said a thousand times that to merely 
stop its use is of no particular service. If 3'ou 
should thrust fifty- pins into your arm and then 
stop, would that be enough ? If you shouldthrow 
ten dogs into a well and stop, would that be enough ? 
No; you must take out the pins and dogs; so the 
nicotine must be removed from all parts of the bod\ r , 
which can be readily done by the Omnipathic meth- 
ods, and if they afterwards when well introduce 
even a small piece of tobacco into their mouths, 
they become fearfully sick. 

One-half the cases of Bright's disease in men orig- 
inate from the use of tobacco. Fine, portly-look- 
ing men, who can for 3'ears withstand the ill effects, 
all at once show signs of this common affliction* 

NOTE — RECAPITULATION. 

I anticipate the objection of some reader of this 
brief volume when he says the author has intro- 
duced the same ideas several times. I have in some 
instances done it on purpose to catch the eye, so it 
w r ould be retained by the reader, and occasionally 
simply because I cannot spare the time from my 
medical labors to take out repetitions. 

HABITS. 

Bad and good habits are readily learned. One as 



TOBACCO SLAVE. 25 

easily as the other. I take very little stock in the 
44 Man is prone to evil as the sparks are to fly up- 
wards," Men and women usually prefer to do 
good rather than bad acts. The company one 
keeps has a deal to do with his life. If surrounded 
D 3 r good people, filled with good intentions, } r ou 
are very likely to at least imitate them. A pam- 
phlet before me says $85,000,000 was spent in 
the United States in 1885 on public education ; and 
$600,000,000 on tobacco. Now as you increase 
the amount spent on educating boys and girls in 
physiology with especial reference to the ill effects 
of alcohol and tobacco, in a much larger ratio will 
the use of stimulants and tobacco decrease. The 
use of tobacco in other words is caused b}' a 
lack of the knowledge of its ill effects. No one will 
purposely thrust his hands into a coal fire. But 
with the uneducated on this subject it would be as 
difficult to prove its injurious effects as it would be 
to prove that the mouth of the Mississipi is 
narrower than the mountain rivulets where it has 
its origin. A boy who hears another say dam 
it, learns it with great rapidity. Try the experi- 
ment and say Mary Qvery time you get excited, 
and would have sworn, and you will find that 
Mary comes easily in place of God, or any other 
oath. Some college boys tried the experiment 
to see how often the\ T could urinate for three 
days, and when they stopped they found the 
constant desire to micturate continued. Mil- 
lions of men in this country are setting (to 



26 TOBACCO SLAVE. 

the rising generation) the bad habit of smoking, 
the\ r naturally suppose it is beneficial and right to 
do it. So the malady increases. Ex-Consul Halde- 
man told me that Chinese girls only eight } r ears 
of age carry pockets for their tobacco and pipe. 
Could anything bemore pernicious? 

In 1887 I placed the following advertisement in 
several of the papers of Harrisburg, Pa. A few of the 
members of the Legislature had died previous^, 
some suddenly, and the Doctors blamed the ventil- 
ation as being imperfect. The deaths were nearly 
all caused hy the use of tobacco, and its pernicious 
effects from Jjeing deposited on the carpets, floors, 
and in the spittoons. Hence the within reference : 

NICOTINE . 

Diseased throats, induced from chewing or smok- 
ing tobacco, are alarmingly common and unfortu- 
nately the unhealthy individual is not aware of the 
chronic inflammation which is slowly sapping the 
health of the victim. The mouth, throat and wind- 
pipe are being saturated with the extract of the weed 
and the drugs introduced into it by the manufac- 
turer, and they are constantly vitiating, poisoning 
the air that passes in and out of the lungs just as 
old dead skunks would pollute the surrounding at- 
mosphere of any localit\ r where suspended. The 
impure air thus entering the respiratory organs 
cannot perform properly its functions of oxygen 
ating and revivifying the venous blood, and hence 
it leaves the lungs and enters the heart and is 



TOBACCO SLAVE. 27 

forced through the body in a bad condition, making 
poor tissues and a poor body generalW. The kid- 
neys make herculean efforts to take off the increas- 
ing impurities (the virus of nicotine), and be- 
ing so overworked they become diseased, and 
Bright's affection of the Kidney's or diabetes are the 
results. The lungs are also constantly annoyed, and 
they become inflamed from the introduction into 
them of the smoke, carbonized nicotine fumes, ashes 
and other mephitic odors. The salival glands, which 
should ordinarily make, say, forty ounces of saliva a 
day, make when so abused 50 to 100 ounces in 24 
hours, drawing constantly on the blood for this pur- 
pose. This drain upon the system is sure sooner 
or later to put the machinery out' of order. 

No pure air ever enters the lungs of the user of 
tobacco. A constant fight for supremacy is going 
on through life, and the whole of the body is sooner 
or later involved in the trouble thus commenced by 
making a bad and wronguseof the mouth. I have 
warned hundredsthat they might suddenly die from 
its ill effects. I told our late Mayor (Wilson) in 
1886 that he wonld not live out the year without 
he stopped its use. I told Daniel Eppley the same 
not sixty days before he died suddenly. I have 
stopped over 2,500 persons from using it in four 
years; broken up the habit and cured their ill-con- 
ditioned bodies. No use to talk of better ventila- 
tion in the House of Representatives until the\ T ban- 
ish the pipes, tobacco and spittoons full of putres- 
cense. 



28 TOBACCO SLAVE. 

Do you understand ? No man ever used tobacco 
in any form who did not have an inflamed (and af- 
ter a time) ulcerated sore throat, with usually no 
pain. The nicotine acts like opium in preventing 
the pain. 

NOTE. 

Many persons called upon me after reading the 
above statements, and desired further information. 
Many stopped its use. In some cases the farmer 
who raised it stopped its cultivation. 

HUMILIATING. 

Millions of men devote the major portion of 
their lives in triturating tobacco and thus making 
salival solutions, and then in a manly manner ex- 
pectorate it out on to the carpeted floor, or else- 
where. They are apparenth' under a strict con- 
tract with the growers of the weed to work thus 
studiously at this loathsome job, as though their 
ver\ r lives depended upon the fulfilment of their obli- 
tions. Look at a set of humans thus destro3 T ing 
tobacco in a smoking car. Funnels ought to be 
placed in them to spit in and thus let it escape 
on to the track, instead of making the floors look 
like a last years pigeon roost. 

SORE THROAT. 

After anyone has produced the peculiar hor- 
rible nicotine throat, I do not believe it would ever 
get well without assistence even after the stopping 
of the use of the weed. 



TOBACCO SLAVE. 29 

Feb. 1st. 1888 Rev. S. C. Swallow of Harrisburg, 
Pa. placed himself under .my charge. On examin- 
ing his throat T found the ill effects of the weed, and 
3 r et he stopped its use twent}'-six years before, after 
using it thirteen years. 

TO MALMOUTHERS. 

Remember (all ye individuals who pervert the 
use of liquors and tobacco, who, against the plain- 
est declarations of nature, thrust into your mouths 
these nauseous defiling substances) that God gave 
you a head with brains in it, with more intelligence 
than the brutes that you should not act contrary 
to His dictates. He stood you upright, with head 
above the bod\ r , containing the senses of sight, 
smell and taste, that as a watch tower, it would 
see all shoals and avoid all irregularities. •The 
next time you are ready, with so much ceremony 
to place a quid of tobacco or a glass of rum in your 
mouth, take your place opposite a mirror, and re- 
quest your friends, or your wife and children, if 
married, to watch the misguided deed. Ask them 
to listen to your colloquy ; then say : This tobacco 
contains a deadly poison, nicotine. It was terribly 
hard for me to get my mouth and stomach accus- 
tomed to it. They made all the resistance they 
could, but I forced them to accept it, and have, for 
several years, continued to use it. I know my 
mouth tastes horribly, I know my breath is very 
offensive to you, I am aware that lam gradually 
undermining my health, that I am a suicide, that I 



30 TOBACCO SLAVE. 

am spending money that should help to pay my debts 
or to give you a better home, clothes, and food, I 
know I am setting a bad example to you, my dear 
boys and girls. I am quite sure that, as yourfriend, 
I could not ask you to accept me as your archetype, 
that I am disobeying the laws of God and the Bible, 
that soon I may become a drunkard and a pauper. 
I am sure that I, with other just such stupids, am 
paying an immense revenue to the rum and tobacco 
sellers, I am aware that the gold that gilds their 
doors and halls, their costly trappings, bars and 
furniture, stately stores on corner lots comes all 
out of our pockets, that they are our greatest 
enemies, that the3' destroy the happiness, soul and 
life of their victims. I am sure that three-quarters 
of all the prisons in our land are filled with crimi- 
nalsf murderers, burglars, thieves and highwaymen 
who, through rum, became infamous, and now I've 
called you all together to notify you that, as I am 
still a reasonable accountable being, I have deter- 
mined to say to 3'ou that I'll never use tobacco or 
any ardent spirits again as long as I am spared to 
live, and will try to show others how to avoid these 
perversions of manhood, invented by the arch de- 
ceiver, that hereafter my mouth shall drink only to 
quench thirst, and shall fulfil the requirements of 
nature, viz. to eat, breathe, drink proper liquids 
and speak with. 

The above article was published in 1876 in Phil- 
adelphia in a magazine (issued by the author of 
this work) entitled "Openeye." 



TOBACCO SLAVE. 31 



TEMPERANCE SCHEME. 



In 1882, I published the within article on 
temperance. I republish it, hoping some phi- 
lanthropist will take advantage of my offer. 
Since its publication and distribution (at my ex- 
pense) many clergymen have adopted a portion of 
its suggestions. I gave one to our worthy Baptist 
Minister, Rev. Mr. Botterill ; after reading it, he at 
once, in real earnest, commenced a temperance 
movement in his Sabbath School. In 1879 Hon. 
James Black, of Lancaster, Pa. (who ran fop Presi- 
dent of the United States on the Prohibition ticket 
of 1874,)became my patient. He is the real father 
of that movement in this county. He has one room 
in his spacious house devoted to temperance litera- 
ture, and the number of his books are very numer- 
ous. You will there find an}' and everything ever 
published on the subject, and he has spent thou- 
sands of dollars in trying to make the subject pop- 
ular. He is unfaltering, and honest in his beliet 
that prohibition is the only way to rid our country 
of intoxicants. By his request, I delivered two lec- 
tures in Lancaster in 1879. I was then practicing 
Omnipathy in Reading, Pa. The Lancaster Era 
printed nearl}' all of my lecture, which was profusely 
illustrated. Some weeks after I received a letter 
from a prominent member of the Total Abstinence 
Society of Massachusetts, asking my terms, etc. to 
deliver the same lecture in New England ; all of it 
except the portion which referred to tobacco. He 



32 TOBACCO SLAVE, 

savs, "We know of the ill effects of it, but we are 
only fighting intoxicating liquors." My reply was, 
"So far % during my life, w 7 hen I tell the truth I try to 
tell it all; the whole truth forme or none." 

A NEW SERIES OF SCHEMES, 

Called the "Universal Temperance Combination, " 
by Dr. C. A. Greene, Lancaster Pa. 

If Ja\ r Gould or any other millionaire or philan- 
thropist will give me from time to time, as it is 
needed, the necessary funds, I can and w 7 ill bring 
about in Pennsylvania, New York or any other State, 
in a few years, (comparatively,) an approximation 
to a general temperance condition of the major por- 
tion of its inhabitants. Some of the main features 
of the platform are as follows: 

First. I would engage the services of one hun- 
dred moral, energetic temperance men, as many as 
possible of the Murphy type. 

Second. I would establish a temperance news- 
paper, the contributions of articles to be supplied by 
the above one hundred men. 

Third, I would have Hogarth's Gin Lane and 
Deacon Giles's Distillery, and the illustrations of the 
diseased condition of the stomach, brain, kidneys 
and liver, caused by the use of liquors, of Dr. 
SewalFs (entitled Pathway of Drunkenness), chro- 
moed in excellent style, large enough to be seen on 
a wall. 

Fourth. I would set the hundred men to work 
waiting and compiling short stories on temperance 
and intemperance. 



TOBACCO SLAVE. 33 

Fifth. I would publish, on good substantial 
paper and binding, the above literature. 

Sixth. As soon as the above matter was fully 
under way, I would have a dozen or more of the 
one hundred men learn and show in the best man- 
ner the drama of Dr. Robinson's Reformed Drunk- 
ard, with proper scenic effects. 

Seventh. When thus armed and equipped in the 
strife of temperance vs. intemperance, I would or- 
ganize the above body of men by the appointment 
of president, vice-president, secretaries and treas- 
urers. 

Eighth. I would send to the shire-town of each 
county of the State, one of the above corps to com- 
mence his temperance work, all of them acting 
under the same methodical and systematic rules and 
regulations. 

Ninth. The work of the agent would be to dis- 
tribute into every family a copy of the State news- 
paper and tracts, giving with the matter the general 
and detailed intentions of the organized temperance 
combination, asking co-operation and assistance. 
The ngent will call upon every one of the teachers 
of the Common and Sunday Schools in every town 
in the County, as well as upon the clergy. He will 
commence his work by the distribution of the 
newspaper and tracts, and a notice to attend 
one or more lectures upon the above subject. 
An address on temperance should be delivered in 
every town as often as once a month. I would 
have a committee of ungloved men formed by the 



34 TOBACCO SLAVE. 

agent in every town as co-laborers to arrange for 
meetings and in establishing the temperance organ- 
izations, cadets, etc. Let the agents and corps call 
upon all men, who are addicted to the use of tobacco 
or ardent spirits, reason with them, give them 
tracts; let them frequent the highways, by-way's 
and the hovels of the inebriated and poor. 

Each agent will be provided with three pledges. 
Whenever convenient present the first one, in which 
the signer agrees, with God's help, to abstain 
through life from the use of tobacco, opium, or any 
kind of drink containing alcohol, and not to swear, 
and to use his example and influence to induce others 
to do the same. 

The second shall be a pledge to abstain from the 
liquors only. The third to abstain from tobacco 
and swearing. 

These pledges shall be printed in books, and the 
signature in ink be carefully and orderly inserted in 
the same with the date attached. When the books 
are full of names they shall be the property of the 
local organization wherever made up, and shall be 
sacredW kept for after reference. 

Let the above illustrations, with printed descrip- 
tions of the same underneath the engravings, be 
hung in every day and Sunday school and public 
hall in the State, on the walls of the academies and 
colleges, and distributed at cost price or (when pos- 
sible) gratuitously, in ever3' homestead and place of 
resort in our land. Let no teacher take charge of a 
school who is not a teetotaller. Let it be understood 



TOBACCO SLAVE. 35 

by him that he takes upon himself an obligation to 
aid this reformatory movement, and establish a so- 
ciety of boys and girls who solemnly agree not to 
swear, use tobacco or ardent spirits during their 
lives. Let them renew their vows as often as once 
a month. Let them form debating societies, and as 
often as once a month meet together for the discus- 
sion of these subjects in their various attitudes, con- 
ditions, etc. read compositions, sing, and in other 
ways make the meetings agreeable and entertain- 
ing. In these and other methods to be invented b\ r 
the agents, speakers and editors, let the rising gen- 
erations and the people all over the State, know 
the horrors and the iniquities of intemperance, and 
the beatitudes of sobriety, Persuade and reason ; 
do not attempt to drive or imprison. Have the 
fullest sympathy with the moderate drinker. Let 
it be known and unclerstood.that the condition of 
the constanth' intemperate man is a diseased one," 
and he should not be treated as a criminal. He 
should not be incarcerated with felons, but should be 
placed in a reformatory establishment. Whenever 
possible the school commissioner and the superin- 
tendent of the Sabbath schools shall be appealed to 
to assist in carrying out the good work. The agent 
will forward to all teachers who agree to support the 
work, other books containing the different pledges, 
and as often as twice a month he shall publicly 
offer to receive the signatures of the scholars to the 
same. The agent shall notify the signers of the va- 
rious pledges that on the second Tuesday of August 



36 TOBACCO SLAVE. 

in each year, forever, there will be a temperance 
convention and exhibition of all the organizations 
in the State, in some city to be designated, with 
delegates from each county; on which occasion 
there shall be music and singing of the very best 
quality, and speeches made and essays read, and 
declamations and dialogues delivered by the men, 
boys, girls and ladies, all combined with the exhibi- 
tion of the play called "The Drunkard." This shall 
be called the Yearly Jubilee of the Temperance Com- 
bination. At the end of the exercises at each yearly 
meeting there shall be a presentation of money, 
medals and books, after a plan to be hereafter 
studied out and perfected, something in this wise: 
To the largest temperance band in any county of 
all the counties in the State, there shall be presented 
$500; to the second largest, $200; to the third 
largest, $100. To the boy or girl, lady or man, 
who has as teacher, or in any capacity, obtained 
the largest combined number of signatures to the 
pledges throughout the State, will be given a. gold 
medal worth at least $50, on which should be en- 
graved a suitable inscription stating this fact and 
who were the donors. To the persons who ob- 
tained the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, and so 
on to the fifteenth list, shall be presented with 
gold and silver medals varying in value, and with 
suitable explanatory inscriptions on each. 

After the August Jubilee I would change the field 
of each agent ; w T ould thus have a new factor in 
each count}'. He will on every public occasion ask 



TOBACCO SLAVE. 37 

contributions of money to be sent to the treasurer 
to aid in its usefulness, to make it after a time self- 
supporting. He will at the first and all other lec- 
tures get from all and everyone their signatures to 
one of the three pledges. 

I would have every signer of a pledge renew his 
vow and signature in a book, the first week in Jan- 
uary of each year. The drama of the Reformed 
Drunkard should be played once a year, free, or at 
a nominal charge, say ten cents admission, in every 
town in the State, and to expedite matters I would 
organize several companies, so as to get over 
the territory as soon as possible. In this way and 
manner and by the use of new methods which time 
and experience dictated. I would keep before the 
people, and especially before boys and girls, and 
young men and women, the innumerable advan- 
tages of sobriety, and the horrible criminal condi- 
tion of the drunkard. In ten years the bo\ T s and 
girls who had signed the pledge at the age of eleven 
years, would be men and women, and would carry 
such weight and influence through the State, as to 
have the balance of political power in their hands, 
and could easily bring about decided temperance 
movements, viz: The closing of open bars for 
drinking of what is termed the social glass. The 
bar is to nearly all drunkards the starting place in 
the road to infamy and death. Every 3-ear the 
temperance rank of boys and men would in this 
manner be geometrically increased. In ten years 
temperance men and measures would be so popular 



38 TOBACCO SLAVE. 

that in the selection of men for all positions and 
callings of life, where individuals or corporations 
have the choice, only such men would be chosen, 
from the chief magistrate to the most ordinary offi- 
cial. Many saloons, grog shops and liquor stores 
would be for rent, and be turned into some other 
use. Distilleries would become less common, the 
demon, rum, would be shorn of a portion of his 
power and an approximation to universal temper- 
ance would be reached. If Jay Gould, Yanderbilt, 
Astor, Cooper or any other philanthropist will fur- 
nish me the means, I'll so devote my time and ener- 
gies as to fully carry out the above attempt at the 
regeneration of our race. Will commence in the 
State of New York or am- other State in the 
Union. 

When once fully demonstrated in one State, it 
would be eas\ r to carry it through all others. The 
Legislature would donate the necessary funds and 
would greatly profit by it. Every dollar thus in- 
vested w r ould save an immense number of dollars, 
as tramps, paupers and criminals of all classes 
w T ould decrease in number. 

Every inducement is now held forth to the bo3'S 
and young men to chew and smoke tobacco and to 
drink intoxicating liquors, and thereby demoralize 
them, make them squander their money, destroy 
their health and ruin their bodies. Some eighteen 
cigar and liquor stores can be seen in my walk from 
my office to the Stevens' House in Lancaster, all 
of them totallv useless to mankind as would be so 



TOBACCO SLAVE. 39 

many powder magazines. The above ideas have 
been occasionally, as a whole or in part, published 
or mad* public by the writer since about 1844. 

A portion of this same platform (of temperance 
inducing designs), was presented to a Lancaster 
audience in 1879. 

Among the suggestions then made were the follow- 
ing: There is no subject that should be so contin- 
uously thought of and agitated by thinking intel- 
lectual men as the one of promoting temperance. 
Clergymen especially should keep the matter before 
their congregations at all convenient and proper 
occasions, and should themselves set a good exam- 
ple. The reverend who puts tobacco in his mouth 
openly disagrees with the precepts of the bible, 
which object to a defilement of the mouth : besides 
he is constantly setting a bad, dirty, expensive, and 
filthy example to his parishioners, and especially to 
the rising young and observing girls and boys. 

NOTE. 

Dr. Greene has for forty j^ears occasionally deliv- 
ered lectures on temperance; He gave one in the 
Court House at Lancaster, Pa. in 1881, for the 
benefit of the Y. M . C. A. By the request of its 
Secretary* Mr. P.P. Goodman. Also one in 1883 
before the Legislature of Pennsylvania. 

The above matter entitled *'A New Series of 
Schemes, has been before the public for years in 
the pamphlet form. To give it a wider publicity it 
is here inserted anew. 



40 TOBACCO SLAVE. 

TOBACCO CASES. 

In order to give particular cases of diseased pen 
sons induced by the use of tobacco, so the readers 
may see the names and address, and styles of afflic- 
tion, I will here introduce a few of the many thous- 
ands treated successfully. 

Professor Treher of the High School of Carlisle, 
Pa. formerly principal of the High School at New- 
ville, Pa. suffered for nine years with a most aggre- 
vated form of dyspepsia, was greatly reduced in 
weight, annoyed with headache and other pains, 
was so discouraged from long doctoring with no 
improvement that he had almost lost all hope of 
recovery. On the 4th of April, 1885, he came under 
my charge, and he at once stopped the use of to- 
bacco, and gained fifteen pounds in twenty-one 
days y and in nine months all his unfavorable symp- 
toms were gone, and he was some fifty pounds 
heavier, and he then told me he had often tried pre- 
viously to stop its use without success; and that 
he would not resume the habit any more than he 
w r ould put a rattlesnake's head in his mouth. 

CORRESPONDENCE W T HICH EXPLAINS ITSELF. 

Salem, Pa. Dec. 25, 1885. 
Mr S. H. Treher — Dear Sir: Your name and 
place before the people as an educator is sufficient 
guarantee of your ability to judge of the merits of 
Omnipathy as practiced by Dr. Greene, of Harris- 
burg, Pa. and I wish you would state in a letter 
to me your own unbiased opinion of what Omni- 



TOBACCO SLAVE. 41 

path}' may do for a sick man by close and faithful 
applications of the remedies as prescribed by him. 
I hope you will impute no cheek to me for thus ad- 
dressing you as a stranger. I write 3'ou upon Dr. 
Greene's recommendation. Yours Very Truly, 

W. R. MILLER. 

Note by Dr. G. — In the March number of the 
Call you can see an article entitled, Cancerous 
Tumor, removed by Dr. G. from above Mr. Miller's 
face. He is the son of Wm. Miller, who was our 
representative from Salem in the Legislature of 
1884. 

REPLY. 

Carlisle, Pa. Dec. 28, 1885. 

W. R. Miller, Esg. — Dear Sir: Yours of the 
26th inst. relative to "Omnipathy," as practiced 
by Dr. Greene, of Harrisburg, Pa. is at hand. 

In reply, after the manner of the blind man in 
Apostolic times who was interrogated respecting 
the treatment by which he had been restored to 
sight, I will say that I know not what 4< Omni- 
pathy n may do for others, but as for me, I know- 
that through its beneficent influence, that whereas 
I was sick now I am well. 

Less than one year ago, from the effects of mala- 
ria and dispepsia of long standing and of an aggre- 
vated form, super-induced by confinement and the 
air of the schoolroom which is necessaril}- alwaA-s 
more or less impure, and from lack of sufficient ex- 



42 TOBACCO SLAVE. 

ercise, I was reduced to a mere skeleton, height 
about 6 feet, weighing about 153 lbs. and I verily be- 
lieve that I would be in my grave to-day but for 
my accidental falling in with Dr. Greene. 
• Instead I am now what might properly be de- 
nominated a strong, healthy man, and weigh 193 
lbs. 

My entire physical organism seems to have been 
re-created, as it were, and I made a new man. 
Life which had become to me well nigh a burden, 
is now a pleasure, a veritable existence! I thank 
God that such a man as Dr. Greene lives! 

It is proper for me to say perhaps that I had 
some misgivings as to the merits of i4 Omnipatlry," 
but as I had tried many other physicians of the 
Homeopathic and Allopathic schools and had re- 
ceived but little benefit, and that onh T in the form 
of temporal relief, I resolved to try Dr. Greene, 
and much to my delight and gratification, I began 
at once to improve, and have so continued up to 
the present time with the results as before stated. 

I have long questioned the propriety of the inter- 
nal use of drugs in the treatment of disease, believ- 
ing that all the ills that human flesh is heir to could 
be treated most successfully by the external appli- 
cation of the proper remedies. 

The ho&y is not unlike a huge sponge, and as 
we all know it will absorb readily all poisons 
brought in contact with it, causing a derangement 
of the functions of the various organs which in turn 
cause the physical organism to sicken and die; and 
why might not remedials be applied to the surface of 
the body by means of the absorption of which dis- 
eases could be reached and eradicated from the 
system? 

Such in brief is Dr. Greene's treatment which he 
styles " Omnipathy." Anhour'sconversation with 



TOBACCO SLAVE. 43 

the venerable doctor will, I think, convince even 
the most skeptical that his system is the only 
real natural one (so far as known) in existence. 
Believing the treatment to be an entirely rational 
one, and knowing it to be a simple and effective 
one, I have no hesitation in recommending 4< Omni- 
pathy" to anv and all who are in anv wav af- 
flicted. 

Hoping that I may at some time be the recipient 
of a communication from you after testingthe mer- 
its of "Omnipathy," I remain 

Very Respectfully, 

S. H. TREHER. 

ADDENDA. 

On the 8th of May, 1889 Prof. Treher wrote Dr. 
Greene as follows : 44 Hoping you are meeting with 
unbounded success in your efforts to establish a 
School of Omnipathy I remain 

Sincerel}- Yours, 

S. H. T. 

ANOTHER. 

Feb. 8th, 1886, Mr. David H.Fowhl of William's 
Grove, Pa came under my charge in a very bad 
condition, with loss of memory, constipation, dys- 
pepsia, ulcerated sore throat, and tonsils so large 
as to almost close his throat, all occasioned by the 
poison of tobacco. He had no appetite, littleblood, 
very nervous and generally out of order, he had 
used tobacco for fifteen years, and had frequently 
tried to stop it without success. He could not 
overcome the appetite. On the 5th of April he 
called in to see me and reported himself better in 
every way, said he stopped the use of tobacco at 
once, and in a few days all his desire to use it was 
gone. 



44 TOBACCO SLAVE. 



ANOTHER. 

May 13th, '82. Josiah S. Ebersole of Middletown, 
Pa. came to me suffering from the poisonous ef- 
fects of the nicotine of tobacco. He had made 
man}' vainless efforts to stop its use, but the unnat- 
ural habit was deeply rooted, thepernicious poison 
had impregnated his wholebody,and like a polluted 
well containing dead cats, the only cure was in re- 
moving the noxious substances from his body, as 
the cats must first be taken from the well before 
any cleaning would have any beneficial effect. He 
had without avail tried drugs in his stomach, this 
was like introducing more cats. He at once stopped 
the use of tobacco. In a short time he became 
decidedly better. One day some bees required look- 
ing after, they were swarming. Lighting a cigar 
to keep them away from his head, he started out, 
supposing he could smoke without any inconven- 
ience, but the effects of the nicotine had been par- 
tially removed, and he was greatly astonished to find 
himself growing dizzy, faint, and the sweat pouring 
out of his body. The cigar was thrown away, but 
he was obliged to lay still for some time on the 
ground. He could not use any more tobacco. 

TOBACCO 23 YEARS, 
PRODUCING AN ENLARGED HEART. 

Mr. William H. Shope, a tailor, of No. 26 South 
Tenth Street, of Harrisburg, Pa. (works for Mr. 
Ross,)had an affection of his heart and an ulcerated 
throat, closely simulating cancer, for many 3-ears. 
In March, 1886 he was !aid up an entire week with 
terrible palpitations of his heart. A prominent 
physician of this city, who attended upon him 
told him he coald give him relief, but no one could 
cure him, and he was liable to die any day. 



TOBACCO SLAVE. 45 

Sometimes he suffered a great deal with pains 
in his chest and in his throat. He was very ner- 
vous. On the 8th of May, 1887, he began using my 
remedies, and in a letter written me January 6th, 
1888, he says: "In four months every vestige of 
my affection of the heart left me, and my brother 
who is a physician in Halifax, Pa. examined me 
and said there was no diseased condition of my 
heart. Up to the commencement of your treatment 
mv measurement was 34% inches around the breast, 
29V 2 waist, 35 for the hips. They are now 38 
breast, 35% waist and 39 hips. I then weighed 115 
pounds, and now about 140 pounds. I never felt 
so strong and hearty in my life as now." In other 
words Mr. Shope is 3% inches larger over the chest 
and hence has increased the size of his lungs, since 
the using of the right (or rational) treatment. 

All these afflictions were caused by the use of to- 
bacco. He had what is termed a 4t tobacco heart, M 
(said it turned over), and the peculiar cancerous 
throat which was the most difficult portion to 
cure (same as Gen. Grant). Of all the physicians w T ho 
treated him, none intimated that the nicotine was 
killing him. Not even his brother, a prominent M. 
D. who tried to cure him, and finally notified him, 
14 No cures were ever made in such cases. " 

Mr. Shope now curses the day he ever was induced 
to use it. 

TOBACCO 35 YEARS. 

Read this! Read this! Mr. Thomas Warhurst, 
of No. 9 Lafayette avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. sent me 
the following testimonial: "For 15 years I have 
had Bright's disease of the kidneys, so pronounced 
by Dr. Bowen, examining physician of the Mutual 
Life Co. of N. Y. by whom I was rejected on mak- 
ing an application for a polic\ r of Insurance on my 



46 TOBACCO SLAVE. 

life, and many other physicians have told me the 
same story. For 12 years I have been disfigured 
with an ulcerated relict of a carbuncle under my 
left eye, which threatened to become a cancer. For 
many years I have constantly tried to get cured 
and have only tested the physicians called most 
skilful. Two of them were my relatives. I have 
also tried all the best known patent (so called) 
medicines with no benefit or even relief from any 
or all of them. Having been the manager of the 
celebrated musician Blind Tom, for 20 years, and 
with him travelled over the civilized world, my op- 
portunities of knowing of physicians reputations 
has been unequaled, and I have sought far and near 
for one who could cure me: in vain. On the 16th 
of October, 1886, while exhibiting Blind Tom in 
Harrisburg, Pa. I placed myself under the charge of 
Dr. C. A. Greene, Omnipathist, who treats all dis- 
eases of the body by external applications of non- 
poisonous medicines (no drugs internally). His 
tre'atment has acted like magic in my case. I am 
now 60 years of age and a well man, and not a 
vestige of my kidne\ r disease or the ulcerated car- 
buncle remains. I will gladly repeat the above evi- 
dence and more to any one who will call upon me, 
or address me by letter. Besides the above afflic- 
tions I had an ulcerated sore throat and symptoms 
of the gout and nasal catarrh, all of which have 
disappeared. Several members of my famih' and 
relations have been cured b\' Dr. Greene's remedies. 
My brother-in-law, T. P. Clark, of Bennet, Neb. was 
given up as dying with chronic diarrhoea and other 
complaints. Dr. Greene has cured him and never 
saw him. He is 1,600 miles from his office. Itruly 
admonish all persons who are suffering from any 
disease to test the novel treatment of Omnipathy 
and quit swallowing drugs. 



TOBACCO SLAVE, 47 

NOTE. 

Mr. W. had a regular tobacco sore throat; 
it looked as though previously burned, (just as bad 
as Gen. Grants), voice would occasionally give out. 
He kept his son with him in cases of emergency. In 
April, '87, he wanted to act as my agent in letting 
the world know more of " Omnipathy." 

He established and continued to act as my agent 
for six months at No. 9 Lafayette Avenue, Brook- 
lyn, N. Y. and through his intervention, I gave four 
lectures in the Historical Society's rooms, and treat- 
ed some six hundred patients. 

TOBACCO TWENTY YEARS. 

Cancer on the Face.— On the 27th of April, 
1887, Mr. W. J. Russell came 700 miles to my office, 
from Fayette, Ohio, and commenced using my rem- 
edies for a bad looking cancer on his face. He had 
a very inflamed throat and was out of health in 
several ways. On the 7th of December he writes 
me: "I am entirely well, in every way. No sign of 
a cancer on my face." Before coming to me he was 
often induced to have it removed with a surgeon's 
knife. 

If Omnipathic physicians were as common as al- 
lopathic the knife would soon be a useless instru" 
ment, and a race of healthy men and women would 
soon be raised, who, ignoring the use of anything 
taken into the stomach and mouth that could not be 
converted into blood, would be a race of strictly tem- 
perance people. There would be no use for calomel, 



48 TOBACCO SLAVE. 

opium, quinine, whiske}', tobacco or ar^ prohibition 
party if it (Omnipathy) was generally adopted. As 
every one would know that the use of the mouth, 
stomach and intestines is only to put in food and 
moisture, such as water, milk, etc. and they make 
blood, and the blood cures disease and recreates 
the whole body. 

This man had a tobacco sore throat for 3-ears, 
which culminated in the above cancer. The same 
grounds were gone over with him, the tobacco 
stopped, etc. He is not only well now (June 5th, 
1889), but tries successfully to get similar cases 
to become my patients. 

ECZEMA. 

Hundreds of men have skin diseases caused by 
the use of tobacco. In ninety days after using Om- 
nipathic remedies they usually disappear. 

There are many persons suffering from the poison 
of tobacco who would like to stop the habit and 
relieve their bodies of the nicotine that has impreg- 
nated their tissues and parts; to such persons let 
me again say that we have stopped thousands who 
have had the habit so strong as to think it impossi- 
ble to leave it off. Stopped one in this city who has 
been using it for forty-five years. He says that his 
whole life seems changed for the better since he has 
rid himself of the filthy, unnatural expensive stuff, 
and that he would not be so enslaved again for 
$100, and that he has chewed and smoked over a 
ton of tobacco. I recently stopped a man who had 



TOBACCO SLAVE. 49 

used it sixty-four years, p man of wealth and influ- 
ence. He had been told by leading physicians that 
it would kill him to stop it. I told him it would 
kill him if he did not let it severely alone, and all at 
once, and I am happy to say his appetite is gone. 
In November, 1888, I told one of my neighbors of 
Arlington again and again that he was liable to die 
suddenly from its poisonous effect, that he was too 
thin, not blood enough, and saturated with nico- 
tine. I told him in January. 1889, the same in my 
office in presence of Dr. Kyle's father, of South Bos- 
ton, and other witnesses, and even offered to treat 
him without any charge, and the next Saturday he 
died, just one week from the day he was in my office. 
The only way to stop its ravages is to send 
such works as this broadcast over our country and 
introduce into every school in our land a simple 
physiology containing proofs of its injurious effects 
upon the body. 

A prominent man of Brooklyn, N. Y. had his 
tongue and a portion of his lower jaw cut off by the 
surgeons of his cit}', for which they charged him 
$2,000. He had the same kind of tobacco throat 
as Mr. Warhurst, and there was no more benefit to 
be derived from their mutilating his body than there 
would be to cut off one head of a snake, when he had 
twenty more. After so disfiguring him, they satu- 
rated him with morphine and kept him unconscious 
of his condition. He was (while in bed dying) 
placed under my charge, and two months after- 
wards, at the end of one of my lectures in the His- 



50 TOBACCO SLAVE. 

torical Society Rooms, he introduced himself to me, 
thanked me for saving his life, and said he was 
sixteen pounds heavier than before they so horridly 
cut off his tongue. 

If it would be of any service to the reader, j 
could give hundreds of similar and dissimilar cases 
of every variety of disease, from the same cause 
could issue a huge volume, but they would be after all 
only repetitions. I might say that the Crown Prince 
of Germany, who died after repeated mutilations, 
died from the poison of nicotine. Cases of cancer of 
the stomach and intestines, men sallow, attenuated 
cadavarous, unfit for work, with no courage, no 
push, imperfect memories, almost constant pain in 
the back, every organ in the body in a mal-condi- 
tion, with loss of manhood, are all the result of 
chewing or smoking the unnatural herb. 

hogarth's "gin lane." 

In 1853 I visited the Philadelphia^ Pa. Library 
on Sixth street, and there examined at great length 
a series of Hogarth's picture. Among a large num- 
ber of these sketches made by him in 1751 , was one 
entitled "Gin Lane," which, in a remarkably vivid 
manner, illustrated the innumerable evils of spirit 
drinking. If old Hogarth was not an anti-gin and 
anti-tobacco representative, it was not for lack of 
evidence of their ill effects. I wish I could recall 
him from the spirit w r orld to aid me in showing all 
the bad points of the tobacco question. 

In "Gin Lane" 3-0 u have scores of Talmages ser- 






TOBACCO SLAVS. 51 

mons condensed into vivid illustrations, no end to 
the variety. S. Gripe's sign is over one man's 
door. The kindred signs of pawn brokers, dealers 
in old clothing, tobacco, whiskey, ales, gin and 
beers, are seen everywhere. Every kind of diseased 
humans are represented taking in saws, kettles, 
pots, clothes and other articles of personal property 
to the pawn broker, to obtain money to buy 
ardent spirits and tobacco. A drunken man and a 
dog are eating meat from the same bone. Another 
sign says "Drunk for a penny, dead drunk for two 
pence, and straw thrown in." A lazurite looking 
woman, w T ith her bosom exposed, is in a beastly 
state of intoxication on the top step of a house, 
half holding a shrieking child, which is falling over 
a banister ; on a lower step is the just alive skeleton 
of a man, holding a card inscribed "The downfall 
of mad gin." In the distance are jails, poor houses, 
insane asylums and prisons. In the background 
may be seen a dead inebriate about to be coffined. 
A child, thrust through the abdomen by a huge fork, 
is held up to view by the drunken father; on the 
right a sign, "Ready madecoffins." You see through 
a broken hole in the wall of a dilapidated building, 
in an upper chamber, the representation of sus- 
pended respiration viz. A drunken man hanging by 
a rope. On a board is "Killman, wholesale dis- 
tiller." Cripples and unfortunates of all kinds and 
hues are portrayed in every conceivable form and 
a drunken prostitute is being wheeled somewhere 
in a barrow, while another female is forcing some 



52 TOBACCO SLAVE. 

rum down the throat of an innocent child. You 
will also read the following verses: 

FIRST. 

Gin, cursed fiend, with fury fraught, 

Makes of human race a prey. 
It enters by a deadly draught, 

And steals their life away. 

SECOND. 

Damned cups that on vital's prey, 

That liquid* fire contains, 
Which madness to the heart conveys, 

And rolls it through the veins. 

THIRD. 

Virtue and truth driven to despair, 

Its rage compels to fly, 
But cherishes with hellish care, 

Theft, murder and perjury. 

tobacco in 1764. 

In a cop}' of Nathaniel Ames Almanac for 1764, 
(now in my possession) appears the following ar- 
ticle on tobacco. " The incomparable Dr. Boerhave 
says that when the saliva is lavishing by being spit 
away, we then remove one of the strongest causes 
of hunger and digestion; the chyle prepared with- 
out this fluid is not of so good a condition, and the 
blood is worse for being deprived of this diluting 
liquor.'* 



TOBACCO SLAVE. 53 

SMOKING CARS IN THE REAR. 

The magnates who control the making up of 
trains, do a great injury to the lovers of pure air by 
placing the smoker's in front of any passenger car, 
they only punish the innocent by compelling them 
to re-breathe the vitiated air of the misguided men 
and boys who occupy the other. 

The Directors make a great mistake in the inhu- 
manitarian act of furnishing well appointed cars to 
be occupied by men so misdirected in their manners 
and habits as not to be able to forgo the use of the 
pernicious habit, while riding from one locality to 
another. 

ALBUMS AS BRIBES. 

Every inducement is offered to get men, girls and 
women to use up the weed in the multitudinousforms 
in which it appears. Every variety of wood and 
material are used for pipes, pipe stems, or holders. 
One firm in New York offers a fine album to aqy 
cigarette smoker who brings them a quantity of 
tags, to indicate the number of cigarettes destroyed, 
and this firm say they' have given away 250 albums 
in a day. 

While engaged in one vicious business of inducing 
men and boys to use the vile weed in chewing, 
smoking and snuffing, the sellers go further. They 
place pretty girls faces on the boxes and also 
women's nude forms, thereby increasing the men's 
immorality. The clergymen have noticed this devil- 
ish action in their pulpits, and yet it is done openly 



54 TOBACCO SLAVE. 

and boldly so men may be more rapidly prostituted. 
This satanic sword cuts both ways in demoralizing 
men, and they demoralize women. And the most 
astounding phenomena and remarkable coincidence 
in the world is the fact that with all the attempts of 
bad, evil-disposed men combined they have never 
succeeded in inducing the American women, only in 
a few instances, to use in any form this devilish 
shrub. Thanks to the virtue and intelligence of the 
American women. In contradistinction let me 
quote from a daily paper the following : 

A curious custom that attracts the attention of 
strangers in Panama is the spectacle of native women 
walking along the streets smoking long, slender 
cigars. It is the habit of the women there to gather 
in the public markets as early as sunrise to gossip 
and talk over their affairs while enjoying their 
morning smoke. Their confabs take the place of a 
newspaper. 

A BRIEFE & ACCURATE TREATISE, 

CONCERNING THE TAKING OF THE FUME OF TOBACCO, 

Which Very Many, in These Dayes, doe too 
Licenciously Use, by 
TO. VENNER, of London, 
Doctor of Physick in Bathe, 1637. 
In which the immoderate, irregular and unseason- 
able use thereof is reprehended, and the true na- 
ture and best manner of using it, perspicuous^' 
demonstrated. 



TOBACCO SLAVE. 55 

The hcarb Tobacco is of much antiquitie and repu- 
tation among the Indians of America. It is also 
called Nicotian. 

The above article is the title page to a work on 
the subject of tobacco. Read it, and you will see 
that its evil effects were known in 1637. 

HISTORY OF TOBACCO. 

John Nicot introduced tobacco into France in 
1560. He was an ambassador of France at the 
Court of Lisbon. In 1585 it arrived in England, 
through Sir Francis Drake, from Tobago, one of 
the windward groups of the West India Islands. 
In 1624 snuff taking became so odious that Pope 
Urban excommunicated all persons found using it 
in the churches. In 1634 the Russians made a law 
that all snuff-takers, upon conviction, should have 
the nose cut off, but soon after, discovering the 
frightful commoness of persons bereft of this appen- 
dage, the law was repealed. In 1653 the council of 
the Canton of the Apponzell in Switzerland severely 
punished all persons found smoking. In 1719 the 
Senate of Strasburgh prohibited its cultivation. In 
1565 an apothecary of Augsburg, Germam', re-" 
ceived dried tobacco leaves from France as a new 
drug. In the course of the seventeenth century a 
number of books on tobacco were published in 
Switzerland and Germany. In Italy, the cler- 
gy became protectors of the Satanic herb. Bish- 
op Tornaboni sent the first seed of the plant from 
Paris to Florence. To Rome, the seed was first 



56 TOBACCO SLAVE. 

sent by Cardinal de Santa Croce (of the Holy Cross) 
Papal nuncio at Lisbon, and after him the plant 
was named the herb of the holy cross. But at Rome 
tobacco first met opposition. Pope Urban VIII, 
(because laymen and clergymen were snuffing during 
divine service), excommunicated snuffers in 1625. 

In Spain, at the convent of San Jago de Compos- 
tella, famous for pilgramages, five monks were im- 
mured alive in 1692 because they had smoked at 
the choir in the evening. Yet Pope Benedict XIII, 
himself a passionate snuffer, allowed the use of to- 
bacco again in 1724. Secular governments, too, 
opposed the use of tobacco. King James I. of Eng- 
land wrote a lengthy essay in Latin against it in 
1603. The University of Oxford held a public dis- 
putation against the smoking of tobacco in 1605. 
In France only druggists were allowed to sell tobacco 
when prescribed by physicians. In Sweden, at the 
time cf Gustavus Adolphus, smokers had to do 
penance in the church. In Russia smokers were 
unmercifully whipped, while their noses were torn 
open in 1634. About the same time Sultan Murad 
IV. went around in Constantinople during the night 
time, accompanied by executioners, who killed those 
he discovered smoking. 

In Persia, soldiers found smoking were killed, and 
their smashed hands and feet were thrown- before 
their tents. Also among the Mohammedans the 
clergy were bitterly opposed to the use of tobacco. 
In Germany, where the first smoking of tobacco 
was chronicled in 1620, the authorities waged war 



TOBACCO SLAVE. 57 

against its use (after the thirty years' war), from 
161S to 1648, was over. The city council of Berne, 

Switzerland, ordained in 1661, that smoking of 
tobacco should receive the same punishment as 
adultery. But all the opposition was of no avail. 
Tobacco remained victor. Thereupon the govern- 
ment commenced to tax it. The Republic of Venice 
first did this in 1657. It decreed the sale and man- 
ufacture of tobacco to be a monopoly of the State, 
leased the same and derived a net income of 46,000 
ducats from it during the first five years. This ex- 
ample was at once followed by the papal govern- 
ment at Rome, and in a short time by the govern- 
ments of all the other States in Italy, In France, 
Colbert, the prime minister, made a similar ar- 
rangement in 1674, and the goverment of France 
derived from the sale and manufacture of tobacco 
a revenue of five hundred thousand livres in that 
year, which rose to 29,000,000 livres during the 
year 16S7. In England also a tobacco monopoly 
of the State was established, but it lasted only 
about twenty years, when it was abolished, giving 
way to a tax on tobacco. In all civilized countries 
of Europe tobacco was heavily taxed in the seven- 
teenth and eighteenth centuries. The tobacco plant 
is now extensively raised in Europe, and man- 
ufactured there into snuff, smoking and chewing 
tobacco, all of which are taxed as luxuries. As to 
the production of tobacco, the Gartenlaube says: 
The annual amount of it raised at present is, in 
the United States, 3,400,000 hundred weight; 



58 TOBACCO SLAVE. 

Cuba 610,000; Brazil, 300,000; India, 150,000; 
Austria, 100,000; the Netherlands, 85,000; Italv, 
93,000; Russia, 180,000, and Germany, 1,100,000. 
Of the several States of the latter country Prus- 
sia produces, in round numbers, 230,000 hundred 
weight; Baden, 242,000; Bavaria, 156,000; 
Alsace-Lorraine, 160,000, and Hessia, 31,000. The 
tobacco raised on the whole earth amounts to 
about 13,000,000 hundred weight annually. The 
presentannual consumption of tobacco per head of 
the total population is in Russia, 1 pound; Italy, 
1 1-2 pounds; Cuba, 2 1-5 pounds; Austria, 3 2-5 
United States and Germany, each 3 pounds; Bel- 
gium, 5 4-5 pounds, and Holland, 5 3-5 pounds. 
Tobacco, in the shape of snuff, smoking and chew- 
ing, although in itself not a very attractive thing, 
has millions of devotees all over the world. 

ITS ORIGIN. 

Tobacco was discovered in San Domingo in 
1496; afterwards by the Spaniards in Yucatan, in 
1520. It was introduced into France in 1560, and 
England in 1583. 

AMOUNT OF TOBACCO CONSUMED. 

" Everybody smokes in Siam — men, women and 
children/' said Mr. John R. Haldermanthereturned 
minister from Bangkok, Siam, to a reporter. 

The above was cut out of the Washington Post. 

STARTLING STATEMENT. 

The rapid increase of tobacco manufactured in 
this countrv is worth noting. Last year3,457,309,- 
017 cigars 'and 994,334,000 cigarettes were made 
in the "United States alone, requiring over 91,000 
pounds of leaf. In 1872, not 40,000 pounds were 



TOBACCO SLAVE. 59 

used. The vast bulk of tobacco, however, is con- 
sumed in " other manufactuers," which required 
217,451,000 pounds in 1884. 

That the reader may have a slight aproximate 
idea of the magnitude of the above quantity of to- 
bacco let me give you a little arithmetic. Suppos- 
ing each cigar was 4% inches long, and each cigar- 
ette was 2Y2 inches long, and they were all laid 
down end to end, the cigars would extend 1,296,- 
940, 875 feet, and the cigarettes would reach 165,- 
722,333 feet and together would make 1,452.213,- 
208 feet or 276,934 miles. In other words they 
would wind around the world more than eleven 
times. In this insidious manner are the millions of 
men, women, girls, and boys, using up thisimmense 
amount of filthy weed, but the lamented part be- 
side the vast expenditure of money, and time lost 
in lighting matches, and smoking the weed is that 
every one is injuring the bod\ r that God gave him 
charge of. Still there are thousands so saturated 
with the virus of this plant and so opinionated in 
its favor that you might with as much propriety 
expect to extinguish a huge fire by expectorating 
upon it human saliva, as to convince them of its 
baneful effects. 

The number of cigars sold on Broadway, New 
York, is estimated at 20,000 daily. Of these, one- 
twentieth part cost 30 cents, one-fifth 25 cents, one- 
fifth 20 cents, two-fifths 15 cents and and three- 
twentieths 10 cents. Thus Broadway spends upon 
its cigars $3,300 per day, or $2,050,850 per year. 



60 TOBACCO SLAVE. 

It is est/mated that in the city of New York 75,- 
000,000 cigars are consumed yearly, the total cost 
of which is $9,650,000. Add to this the amount an- 
nually expended for pipes and tobacco, and we, 
have an aggregate of ten and a half millions as 
New York's yearly account with retailers of the 
weed, The 75,000,000 cigars, if laid end to end, 
would extend one and a half times across the At- 
lantic, or, if laid side b\' side, would build quite a 
wall of cigars from New York to Albany ! 

In the manufacture of the article there are 946 
firms engaged. These firm s are (in so many instances) 
unworthy of credit that the government, in order 
to secure the fulfilment of the provisions of the law, 
require of them penal bonds, which at present 
amount to $7,947,000, There are some four thous- 
and machines, such as cutters, presses, snuff-mills, 
etc. The State which has the most manufactories 
of the filth is North Carolina, the number being 
191 ; Virginia follows, with 178. The number of 
persons engaged in manufacturing cigars is 10,827, 
and they give bonds in the sum of $21,374,000. 
The minimum of a cigar manufacturer's bond is 
$500, with an additional sum of $100 for eveiy 
registered cigar-maker employed. Of these, New 
York has 2,896; Pennsylvania, 2,543; Illinois, 
553; Maryland, 327. 

The gratification of our depraved appetites costs 
a far larger sum than would support all our poor- 
houses, feed and cloth our poor, fill the treasuries 
of our great Christian missionary societies and 



TOBACCO SLAVE. 61 

carry On all our schemes of education. It is a little 
thing, seemingl\ r , but the aggregate is fearful to con- 
template. 

We have pauper families, (it has been ascertained), 
which have spent more than a thousand dollars on 
Tobacco, counting principal and interest. We have 
genteel clerks who spend annually from one to five 
hundred dollars on cigars! We have a chief magis- 
trate who, on a late back trip from Boston to New 
York, with his suite, smoked a hundred dollars 
worth of cigars! Who pays this bill ? Do Boston 
gentlemen pay it, or the State of Massachusetts? 
Can we reverence a smoking volcano as chief mag- 
istrate? 

fei 1880 Germany destroyed by smoking 650,- 
000,000 of cigars, and 60,000 tons of tobacco were 
used in pipes, and 8000 tons in snuff, and 700 tons 
for chewing purposes. 

u. s. census for 1879. 

General Walker Superintendent of the U. S. Cen- 
sus for 1879 says. " There are 638,841 acres of 
land in the U. S. on which 472,661,159 pounds of 
tobacco was raised, which when worked up into 
all the various kinds of cigars, plugs, etc. would 
probably sell for $500,000,000. 

— The consumption of tobacco in France during 
the past five j^ears has averaged 53,000 tons, thrice 
the consumption in 1832. 

— Forty -eight million pounds of tobacco are an- 
nually consumed in Virginia's 172 tobacco facto- 
ries. 



62 TOBACCO SLAVE. 

— The English duty on tobacco amounts to some 
$45,000,000 a year. 

— The greatest snuff takingcountry in the world 
is France, though it shows a decline in the habit. 
In 1869 the consumption was 13,000,000 pounds, 
or seven ounces per head. Now it is five ounces. 

— In southern Russia and the Caucasus the 
women smoke almost asuniversally as the men. A 
newspapercorrespondent writes: " I have had, two 
or three times, nicely dressed ladies step up to me 
in a railroad station or on the platform and beg of 
me a light. " 

— Over 16,000,000 pounds of tobacco have been 
sold in Lynchburg, Virginia, since October 1, 1881, 
an increase of 700,000 pounds on the scales of the 
previous tobacco year. 

— One estimate is that $610,000,000 worth was 
used up in 1887. In order to give some idea of the 
vastnessofthisamount,supposeit wassilverdollars 
in a huge pile, and a man could count one a minute 
or sixty an hour and replace them in another heap, 
and would continue so to do for ten hours each clay 
It would take him 3,511 years to get through with 
the operation, and he would have lifted during 
these years 38,126,000 pounds or 19, 063 tons of 
silver. If the tobacco was made into strips five 
feet long and one pound to each strip, and one inch 
wide, it would make 192,500 miles and reach eight 
times around our earth. It would make a bridge 
over Philadelphia, from the Delaware to the Schuyl- 
kill River one and one-half miles wide. 



TOBACCO SLAVE. 63 

— During 1887 there were made in this country 
3,177,860,952 cigars, about forty for every pound 
of tobacco used. About 35,000,000 were imported, 
thus making a total of about 3,150,000,000, or 
sixty for every- man, woman, and child in the 
United States, and 250 for ever\' man over 21 
years of age. 

— We are a nation of Smokers and chewers. The 
sales of leaf tobacco at Lynchburg, Ya. in one week 
aggregated 1,243,000 pounds. The sales for the 
season of 1887 aggregate 25,200 pounds over the 
same months of 1886. 

— New York is the centre of the cigar-making 
trade. She has nearly 4,000 factories and turns 
out 1,000,000,000 cigars a year. Pennsylvania, 
Ohio and Illinois rank after New York. 

THE VOICE. 

Mr. Lennox Browne, an English physiologist, 
finds that drinking and smoking affect the vocal 
organs. Statistics furnished by no less than three 
hundred and eighty professional vocalists have 
shown him that a singer should avoid all stimu- 
lants. 

— 158,539,468 pounds of tobacco were raised in 
Kentucky during the year 1883. 

NATIONS USING TOBACCO. 

A statistical comparison showing the relative 
extent to which various nations are addicted to the 
use of tobacco has been published by the Etoile 
Beige, which manifests no little Jjride in the posi- 
tion occupied by Belgium. The proportions are: 



64 TOBACCO SLAVE. 

For England, France and Russia, 5; for Italy, 7; 
for Cuba, 11; for Austria, 14; for Germany and 
North America, 15; for Belgium, 24; and for Hol- 
land, 28. In some parts of the New World, how- 
ever, the achievements of the Dutch are, according 
to the same authority, altogether surpassed. The 
readers of the Etoile Beige are informed that hi 
Mexico everyone is, with ver\' rare exceptions, a 
smoker. The school children who have done best 
in their studies are rewarded by being allowed to 
smoke a cigar as they stand or sit at their lessons. 
The schoolmaster himself is seldom without a cigar 
in his mouth. In the law courts all persons com- 
monly enjoy their tobacco freely, and even the ac- 
cused in a criminal trial is not denied this indul- 
gence, but is allowed, if his cigarette goes out in the 
heat of the argument, to light it again by borrow- 
ing that of the policeman who stands at his side 
to guard him. 

Cut from Boston paper of Jan. 24, 1888. 
Straiton & Storm made last year 42,659,589 
Cigars, a greater number than any other manu- 
facturer by more than FIFTEEN MILLIONS. No 
better evidence can be given to show their immense 
popularity. The sole New England distributing 
Agents for these fine Cigars are Wait & Bond, 53 
Blackstone street, Boston. 

In 1888 the United States manufactured 14,000 
000 pounds of tobacco, 400,000 pounds of snuff, 
4,000,000,000 cigars, and 1,500,000,000 cigar- 
ettes. • 



TOBACCO SLAVE. 65 

INCONSISTENCY. 

Some people talk a great deal about ministers 
and the cost of keeping them, paving their house 
rent, table expenses, other items and salary. 
Did such croakers ever think that it cost $35,000,- 
000 to pay the salary of American lawyers'; that 
$12,000,000 are paid out annually to keep our* 
criminals, and $10,000,000 to keep the dogs in the 
midst of us alive, while only $6,000,000 are spent 
annualh T to sustain the thousands of preachers in the 
United States? These are truths, and statistics will 
show them to be facts. What one thing exerts 
such a might}' influence in keeping x'he republic from 
falling to pieces and the nation from becoming like 
Sodom and Gomorrah, as the Bible and Ministers? 
Skeptic — croaker — tell us ? 

ITS USE IN MEXICO. 

Out of 7000 stores in the city of Mexico, 1072 of 
them sell tobacco in some form, and 1184 sell 
pulque and liquors. 

TWO BILLION CIGARETTES A YEAR. 

Recent enterprising methods of advertisingcauses 
this enormous increase in business. According to 
statistics compiled from the records of the internal 
revenue department, more than 2,000,000,000 cig- 
arettes were sold in the United States during the 
3'ear 1887. If the remainder of the present 3 T ear 
fulfils the promise of the first six months the record 
of the year 1888 will exceed that of the previous 
twelvemonth. 



66 TOBACCO SLAVE. 

" If the cigarettes are as injurious as they are 
claimed by those who declaim against them," said 
a well known manufacturer to a reporter for the 
Mail and Express, "It would seem that this com- 
munity at least, ought to go down to an early 
grave. Of course anything that I might sa y would 
necessarily be said from a prejudiced standpoint, 
and it would be useless for me to attempt to argue 
the matter, and I am willing to let the popularit\' 
of cigarette making speak for itself." 

There is no doubt that the widespread use of 
cigarettes has been due to the extraordinar\ r meth- 
ods which the manufacturers have adopted in order 
to advertise their separate brands and thus bring 
them before a too willing public. It is safe to say 
that in no other business has the art of advertising 
been more satisfactorily conducted as to the ad- 
vertisers themselves or more popularly so for the 
public. 

In the United States there are practically less 
than a half-dozen firms that control the entire cigar- 
ette business, while the product of all the rest com- 
bined is scarcely worthy of notice. The represent- 
ative of one of the principal firms was interviewed 
by the reporter to ascertain some facts relative to 
methods which the manufacturers have of adver- 
tising their wares and the experience of the firm 
called upon is, to all intents and purposes, that of 
the others. 

The most popular way of advertising cigarettes 
at present, is by the insertion of a slip in each 



TOBACCO SLAVE. 67 

package, whieh tells the purchaser that on the 
presentation of a certain number of similar slips 
at the office of the company a beautiful album 
containing useful and artistic pictures ol designs 
will be given free of cost. In this way the manu- 
facturer easily gets valuable information as to the 
class of people patronizing his goods, while the 
purchaser himself is well satisfied. 

If the statement of the reporter's informant is to 
be believed there is one firm in this city which gives 
away every day no less than 250 of these albums, 
30 of which are distributed in the cit\^ daily, while 
the remainder are sent through the mail to all 
parts of the country. While explaining the history 
of picture-giving by these manufacturers, which be- 
gan a few years ago, the speaker handed the re- 
porter a copy of the particular album published b} r 
the firm. It was indeed a work of art, in its way, 
being a pamphlet of the heaviest paper and con- 
taining 48 pages, including the cover, and each 
page was filled with colored representations of the 
coat-of-arms and flags of all the nations of the 
world and of every State and Territory of the Uni- 
ted States. Were it not that the conspicuous ad- 
vertisement of the firm which issues it is displayed 
too prominently, the work would be an ornamental 
as it certainly is a useful adjunct to the library. 
The mechanical art displayed in the books is of 
the highest class, and theilluminated pictures with- 
in its covers are handsomely mounted. 

44 Of course it costs us a great deal of money to 



68 TOBACCO SLAVE, 

prepare and publish a work of such a nature." said 
the firm's representative, "but it pays us well on 
the whole, even though it diminishes our profits to 
a large extent. It is a personal satisfaction to me 
to distribute the albums to those who call for them. 
Sometimes the rush is so great during the hours 
we have set for distribution that we hold quite a 
levee. The majority' of those who bring the requis- 
ite number of slips are young men who evidently 
have saved them from boxes purchased for their 
own consumption, but a great many of the callers 
are boys, and girls, who have kept the slips w r hich 
their fathers or brothers have discarded. 

TOBACCO COUGH. 

This is a very common afHction, but in most 
cases, the cough is only occasional. Hence, it does 
not attract the attention of the victim as being of 
any consequence. It is usually a short quick one, 
as though the throat was temporily obstructed. 
If asked why do 3^011 cough? the reply is "I have 
taken a little cold." 

THE POX, OR SYPHILIS. 

I have seen several cases of chancre of the lips 
among smokers. Many such cases are on record, 
caused by using a borrowed pipe, or by the wrap- 
pers of the cigars being moistened by the saliva of a 
syphilitic cigar-maker. 

You might as well attempt to cany a hot stove 
in your naked arms without injury, as to handle 
this noxious weed with impunity. 



TOBACCO SLAVE. 69 

SMOKING AND HEART DISEASE. 

In a recent report by Dr. Frantzel, of Berlin, on 
immoderate smoking and its effects upon the heart, 
it is stated that the latter show themselves chiefly 
by rapid, irregular palpitations of the heart, short 
breath; languor, sleeplessness, &c. Dr. Frantzel 
says that if the causes of these complaints are in- 
quired into, it is generall} r found that the patients 
are great smokers. 

THE PRINCE AND HIS PIPE. 

[From the Pall Mall Gazette.] 

There are many anecdotes concerning the love 
of the German Crown Prince for his p'.pe. The 
Hamburg Fremdenblatt adds a new one, which is 
now obtained "From a source worthy of credit. It 
is both new and true," adds that journal, "and 
throws a clear light on the oft-praised amiability 
and bonhomie of "our Fritz.' ' The present man- 
ager of the Hamburg Stadt Theatre was formerh^ 
manager of the Berlin National Theatre, and he is 
known to have sacrificed a considerable fortune to 
his ideal-national aims as a guide and leader of the 
drama in Germany. At that period the Crown 
Prince was a constant attendant, it used to be said 
"A demonstrative attendant," at Herr Buchholtz's 
theatre. The manager, for the special convenience 
of the Prince, caused a little antechamber to be 
constructed next to his box, to which he could re- 
tire between the acts. One evening Herr Buchholtz 



70 TOBACCO SLAVE 

entered his little cabinet, according to his custom, 
to give the Prince a lo\^al greeting. He observed 
that his patron, with a sudden action, thrust some- 
thing behind his back, but in an instant afterwards 
drew it forth again, exhibiting with a smile a burn- 
ing cigarette. "You will betray me, Buchholtz," 
saj^s he. " Smoking, as the notice board says, is 
prohibited in the theatre. " "But your Imperial 
Highness," expostulated the manager, "this is 
your private sitting-room." "That is all one," re- 
torted the Prince; "I claim no privilege. You have 
the right to denounce me to the police. I see only 
one way of escape — you must beparticeps criminis" 
So saying the Prince handed his cigarette case to 
the manager. Herr Buchholtz bowed, took a cigar- 
ette and stuck it in his vest pocket. " If Your Im- 
perial Highness will allow me," said he, " I will 
keep it as a memento." "Ah!" replied the Prince, 
"you will escape 3 r ourself and betray me. You 
must take a second and light it." The manager 
obeyed and the Prince said, "Now you are a fellow- 
criminal!" This happened long before the fire at 
Ring Theatre, at a time when the prohibition of 
smoking was not ver\ r strictly carried out, when 
there was not a little smoking among the actors 
themselves, according to the narrator. 

NOTE. 

The Crown Prince died in 1888 from tobacco- 
poisoning. 



TOBACCO SLAVE. 71 



BACTERIA IN SNUFF. 



A Berlin physician, Dr. Ernest Flothow, was 
consulted by a patient who was troubled bj r severe 
headaches. The physician's inquiries revealed the 
fact that the patient had been using snuff immod- 
erately. The snuffbox was produced, and a micro- 
scopic investigation showed that it was swarming 
with bacteria, which appeared in the form of a fine 
whitish powder. These parasites, it is stated, bore 
into the walls of the nasal cavity, where they mul- 
tiply rapidly and finally find their way to the brain. 
— Chicago Times. 

PABALYSIS. 

A \ T oung man in Chicago, last summer, sudden- 
ly found that one side of his face was ailing. An 
hour or two afterwards his right eye refused to 
close, and the paralysis of his whole facial region 
was complete. He went to the doctor and found 
that personage treating three other \ T oung men for 
exactly the same affection. The righteye remained 
open four weeks. The sense of taste was greatly 
weakened. The main nerve, which had been shut 
off by a decrease in the orifice of the skull, was 
finally closed, and no chronic effect beyond a slight 
optical weakness followed in any of the four. It 
would be interesting to know, adds the Current, 
whether or not tobacco had aught to do with 
these remarkable cases. 



72 TOBACCO SLAVE. 

HORRID BUSINESS. 

Two ragged Italian children, who were arrested 
in Chicago while gathering cigar stumps on the 
streets, explained that they sold the discarded 
weeds to a fellow-countryman for 15 cents a pound, 
and that they were "made into cigarettes. " 

PERSONS MAKING TOBACCO. 

Employes in tobacco factories are subject to 
headache, fainting, gastralgia, muscular spasms 
and nervouscoughscaused by breathing the atmos- 
phere containing the tobacco dust. Dr. Franzel, of 
Berlin, says that immoderate smoking ma}' appear 
to produce no unfortunate effect for many years, 
when all at once, the heart becomes seriously de- 
ranged in its action — the result of a sort of cumu- 
lative effect of the drug. 

CIGARETTES. 

If ever the habit of cigarette smoking has thor- 
oughly and permanently fastened itself upon any 
man, that man is Robert Louis Stevenson, the pop- 
ular romancer. During one hour of conversa- 
tion (on his brief visit to New York recently,) 
an average sized bundle of cigarettes was en- 
tirely consumed by the novelist in rapid succession. 
Mr. Stevenson has ruined his health by the prac- 
tice, and both of his lungs have been impaired 
beyond medical skill soleh^by the constant inhaling 
of the deadly smoke. He is frankly conscious of the 
evil effects of the vice that has so insidiously con- 



TOBACCO SLAVE. 73 

quered him, and despite the most earnest efforts of 
his mother, wife and friends, the practiee goes on 
unabated. With Mr. Stevenson a cigarette is his 
last companion on retiring at night, and the first 
sought by him on rising. Physicians of all lands 
have warned him in vain, fearing the culminating 
effects on a constitution already nearly shattered, 
and on a mind from which has emanated those 
wonderful romances that have made their author 
so widely popular in English reading lands. 

Hattie Ketchum, the five-year-old daughter of a 
farmer and tobacco-grower near Weedsport, N. Y. 
is said to be hopelessly addicted to the use of to- 
bacco, and has been since .she was two } r ears old. 
When between one and two years of age the girl 
was afflicted with colic, and at the suggestion of a 
friend tobacco smoke was blown into milk and 
given her. This remed\ r proved effective, but crea- 
ted an uncontrollable desire for tobacco, and by 
various subterfuges the child has ever since found 
means to satisfy her cravings for the weed. 

CANCER. 

Men who must smoke tobacco will do so with- 
out regard to the dreadful fate which overtook 
Senator Ben Hill and General Grant. The cigar- 
ette slave, who inhales and fills his lungs with the 
fiery smoke; the cigar devotee, who masticates one 
end as the other burns, and the lover of the short 
black pipe are all deaf to the voice of warning against 
excessive indulgence. The other day a young man , 



74 TOBACCO SLAVE. 

the son of a college professor, died in his room from 
heart disease, superinduced by the cigarette habit. 
The pipe is responsible for many a malignant ulcer 
that has disfigured the victim for life. Cuban and 
Chinese workmen wfap make onr imported cigars 
use saliva to moisten the paste that fastens the 
end of the wrapper, and who knows what malig- 
nant and nameless disorders may thus be propa- 
gated ? The almost universal diffusion of a taste 
for smoking has not been accompanied by a knowl- 
edge or due appreciation of the evils of excess. Yet 
these are multiform, palpable and serious, and un- 
fortunately the last extreme horror, which now 
confronts General Grant. — Record. 

JUVENILE SMOKERS. 

A British physician, observing the large number 
of boys under fifteen years of age on the street with 
pipes and cigars in their mouths, was prompted to 
examine the breath of this class of smokers, and 
for that purpose selected thirty-eight boys between 
the ages of nine and fifteen. In twenty-two of these 
cases he found various disorders of the circulation 
with indigestion, palpitation of the heart, and more 
or less marked taste for strong drink. In twelve 
there was frequent bleeding of the nose, and twelve 
had slight ulceration of the mouth. The doctor 
treated them for their ailments, but with little effect 
till the habit of smoking was discontinued, when 
health and strength w r ere soon restored. 

A medical expert in France , who had been study 



TOBACCO SLAVE. 75 

ing the effects of smoking, finds that out of eight\ T - 
one great smokers twenty-three exhibited an inter- 
mittent pulse, independent of any cardiac lesion ; 
and this intermittencw disappeared onthe smoking 
habit being abandoned. The effects of smoking on 
children from nine to fifteen years of age show not 
only palpitation and intermittent pulse, but chloro- 
ansemia. 

It is asserted that Senator Ben H. Hill's cancer 
was caused by nicotine, absorbed into a blister on 
his tongue while he was smoking. 

EXPENSIVE. 

Thurlow Weed estimates (in his autobiography) 
that during the fift\-four } T ears he used tobacco he 
smoked and gave away at least 80,000 cigars. 

One Davenport (Iowa) cigar manufacturer em- 
ploys over two hundred persons and turns out 
about 600,000 per month. 

BRAIN-POISONING BY NICOTINE. 

A peculiar case of mental hallucination has just 
appeared at Battle Creek, Michigan, in the person 
of a young man about eighteen or twenty years 
old. He is a eigar-maker by trade, and has been 
in the habit of smoking from ten to thirty '* green" 
cigars daily. He had not drank liquor sufficient 
to produce delirium, and yet he is a raving lunatic, 
and suffers all the horrible phantasmagoria that 
pertain to the fully developed tremens. He has 
worked in and used tobacco ever since earlv bov- 



76 TOBACCO SLAVE. 

hood. Of late years he has used it extensive^, 
principally in strongcigars, and it is supposed that 
the nicotine has so poisoned and shattered his 
mind as to partly paralize it, thus producing the 
disorder. He has been taken to the insane asylum 
at Kalamazoo for treatment. 

A SWISS IDEA. 

A correspondent from Switzerland writes: "In 
all the cafes and beer-gardens in Germany may be 
seen, in the centre of the room, a metal box, placed 
on a table, which has an opening in the top, into 
which are thrown the stumps of cigars. These 
boxes are put there by a benevolent society, with a 
notice requesting gentlemen to deposit their cigar 
ends for the benefit ofthe poor. Every morning an 
agent ofthe society unlocks and empties thecasket 
and with what result ? At Christmas time in the 
year 1881 seventeen hundred and twenty-six chil- 
dren were clothed by the proceeds of the sale of 
this tobacco.'' 

BAD HABITS. 

It's a funny old world anyhow, and taste is only 
a matter of education. Your baby contentedly 
gums candy, the native African picaninny is J03 ous 
over a mouthful of salt, and the yourg Esquimau 
cries for a tallow candle; we gorge ourselves on 
oysters, while the Digger Indian would not give 
you one long fat snake for all the oysters in Ches- 
apeake Bay. We, or at least you, chew tobacco, the 



TOBACCO SLAVE. 77 

Hindoo lime, and the unostcntatiousand not over- 
fastidious Patagonian, when be wants a chew of 
something real good, rolls a quid of guano into his 
cheek. — That's the kind of a gum-drop he is ; and 
you couldn't hire him to chaw tobacco. — Unless, 
indeed he may have learned the habit from the mis- 
sionaries. 

THE TOBACCO HABIT. 

The universal "hankering." — Growth of the cigar 
business.— Open air treatment. The tobacco habit 
is one of the forms of stimulation which seem to be 
common to the crudest as well as the most accom- 
plished beings. Something in man impels him to 
be happier. 

The rude Mexican pounds the century-plant till he 
can get fermentation in it, and then he drinks himself 
drunk. The methodical Chinaman who has a duty 
for every day in the 3 r ear,and saves his money better 
than a miser, had the citadel of his nature stormed 
by opium, and against the command of his govern- 
ment and his religion, he sits down and smokes 
himself into stupefaction. The Turk, precluded from 
liquor by his religion, tortures h:m^elf between the 
harem and the pipe. The Engl'sh beer drinker 
comes to a place where malt and hops will no longer 
satisfy, and he must drug his beer to make it pala- 
table, and the public house which he frequents ob- 
liges him in that respect by opening the bung-hole 
and dropping in tobacco or pepper or something 
sufficiently pungent. 



78 TOBACCO SLAVE. 

Nothing is more remarkable in the United States 
than the growth of the cigar business. Before the 
rebellion, Havana manufactured the best and prob- 
ably the most of our cigars. After the duties were 
made high the cigar-making business was trans- 
fered within our revenue jurisdiction, first to Key 
West, and then to New York. The war itself was 
provocative of the smoking habit as it multiplied 
the excitement and left hundreds of thousands of 
men in tents waiting for battle, and there they 
smoked because they had no other form of enjo3 r - 
ment. So the growth of tobacco was introduced 
into our northern states, and now the north raises 
the best smoking tobacco for cigars, and the to- 
bacco interest in some of the western states, amounts 
to millions per annum. There are said to be GO, 000 
persons in New York rolling cigars or stripping the 
leaf. In almost every little village there are cigar 
factories. 

BAD HABIT. 

A portland, Me. woman became such a slave to 
the habit of eating cloves that from taking one oc- 
casionally she came to consume a quarter of a 
pound in a single day. At last she was attacked 
with all the symptoms of virulent poisoning, and 
the doctors had a hard struggle to save her life. 

Two gentlemen of Norwich, Conn, have had a 
match at cribbage together nearly everj- day since 
Jan. 1, 1882, pla\-ing in that time nearly 15,000 
games. One of them is now twent}- games ahead 



TOBACCO SLAVE. 79 

of the other, and at no time has either had the ad- 
vantage by more than fifty games. 

[Boston Globe May 26, 1889.] 

We have received not a few letters commenting 
upon the almost universal masculine habit of spit- 
ting. One correspondent has favored us with an 
account of an experience in a New York horse car, 
we wish all tobacco chewers and spitters in the 
country would profit thereby. He designates his 
communication " Our National Habit." 

There were five of them; three on the opposite of 
the car and two on my side ; all were uncomforta- 
bly- near, and each man was industriously occupied 
in decorating the floor of the vehicle with discharg- 
es of saliva. Three were tobacco chewers, and 
their copious coffee-colored expectorations soon 
made unsavory pools at their feet; the other two 
discharged a wmite saliva which was only a little 
less copious and nauseating than the other variety. 
So persistent and so zealous were these five men in 
this occupation, that it looked as if they might 
have been hired to sit there and spit at so much an 
hour. 

My cheeks tingled at first with indignation, but 
presently the whole thing began to impress me as 
amusing. Were not these men simpl}' exercising 
their natural privilege of expectorating where and 
as much as the\' pleased ? The}- paid their fare ; and 
a car is a public vehicle in which everybody is as 
good as anybody else; and what is the floor, any- 



80 TOBACCO SLAVE 

way, but something to tread and spit upon ? 
Their reply to any protest I might have made 
would have been adviee energetically expressed, to 
the effect that if I didn't like their doings I might 
get out and walk or hire a coach. To tell them 
that they were making the car floor very nasty, 
and that everybody who came in would have to 
tread in the filth; that women's skirts would fall 
into it; that the right their fares gave them was to 
travel in the car, and not to soil it at their pleas- 
ure — to have told them all this would have excited 
their amazement and their ire. The right to spit 
was to them as natural as the right to breathe — 
they had never doubted it, and had never heard it 
questioned — and yet they were not people of the 
lowest class. They were dressed tolerably well, 
and considered themselves, no doubt, respected cit- 
izens. But how did these respectable citizens abide 
in their own houses ? Did they cover the floors of 
the passages, the stairways, the dining-room, the 
parlor, with stains that the most insensible would 
scarcely call ornamental ? Did they and their wives 
and their daughters always sit down with their 
feet in a pool of tobacco juice ? And then did they 
spit all day long as persistent^ and energcticallj^ 
as they were doing on this occasion ? I dared not 
think of their homes, or follow them in their voca- 
tions—to see and hear them for a duration often 
minutes w r as more than enough. 

And 3 r et I was amused. I had just been reading 
one of Frederick Harrison's brilliant essavs on the 



TOBACCO SLAVE. 81 

11 Worship of Humanity" — the new religion which 
makes mankind the object of worship and reverence, 
and I thought of humanity, with a big H, as a 
universal tobacco chewer, as an embodied expres- 
sion of expectoration and of worshipping it ! The 
picture seemed a little grotesque, and irreverent 
laughter sprang to my lips. 

I am afraid that the thought of a man as a spit- 
ter, a chewer of tobacco, as a being carelessly eject- 
ing unsavory streams from his mouth, is fatal to 
not a few visions of the race. " How noble in rea- 
son," exclaims Hamlet, "inform and moving how 
expressive and admirable, in action how like an an- 
gel, in apprehension, how like a god! — the beauty 
of the world, the paragon of animals!" This is 
very noble, but in order to sympathize with it fully 
I must forget my five paragon tobacco spitters in 
a New York street car; and Hamlet lived before the 
days of tobacco. "In apprehension how like a 
god!" — that is, when he seizes upon his tobacco 
pouch !" "In action how like an angel !" — that is, 
when he squirts his tobacco juice over your newly 
polished boots. 

In truth, vile habits like tobacco chewing and 
spitting, kill not only virtue in those who indulge 
in them, but in those who are compelled to witness 
them. Who can be inspired to serve humanity 
when humanit\ r is unsavory and disgusting in its 
practices ? To die for } r our country is an old patri- 
otic aspiration. D\-ing for your country is dying 
for other people; and if other people means my five 



82 TOBACCO SLAVE 

companions in the street ear, with their quids and 
their ejections, I shall think about it twice. 

This habit is altogether American — not merely 
the habit of tobacco chewing, but the habit among 
men who do not chew tobacco of ceasless spitting. 
The climate is the cause, some say. But American 
women do not spit more than the women of other 
countries, and therefore climate cannot be the 
cause, for climate is no respecter of sexes. We of 
America are a nation of spitters, and are recognized 
as such the world over. It is not an agreeable rep- 
utation. The spittoon is almost an unknown ar- 
ticle elsewhere; here it is a fairly national emblem. 
In many parts of the country its presence is most 
revolting. I recall an instance of an artist who 
was asked to go on a sketching tour in certain dis- 
tricts, and who refused because he would not trav- 
el where in hotel and car he must be brought in 
constant contact with thespittoon and the spitter. 

"Love thy neighbor as thyself," is the scriptural 
injunction. With all my heart, with one mental 
reservation. He must not be a chewer of tobacco. 

WASTED TIME. 

Millions of hours are lost ever3 r day in the United 
States, by chewers and smokers of tobacco, in the 
various attitudes assumed of scratching a match, 
or the lighting of a cigar, or in arranging the weed 
for chewing; also in adjusting and readjusting the 
cigar or pipe in the mouth, or in the dilectable pas- 
time of knocking off the accumulated ashes with 



TOBACCO SLAVE. 83 

the little finger, which to be well done requires ed- 
ucation, how to be adroit and not burn the 
appendage. 

YELLOW MOUSTACHE. 

Some chewers of the noxious weed wear a stiff 
bristly style of moustache, tinted with the 3 r ellow 
of the nicotine, and they spend hours of time in 
fruitless efforts to curl the hirsute appendage. 

HYGIENE IN SCHOOLS. 

In 1854, by the request of some of the citizens of 
Philadelphia who had attended nn r physiological 
lectures, and also by the solicition of one Von Her- 
ringen, who had invented a new musical notation. 
I spoke for an hour to the Board of Controllers of 
the Public Schools on the necessity of introducing 
Hygiene, (with special reference to ardent spirits 
and tobacco), and music into the above schools. 
Now twenty-five of the thirty-eight states of the 
Union use physiological books, and music is com- 
mon everywhere. 

PHYSIOLOGY AND HYGIENE IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 

From the Laws of Pennsylvania made in 1886. 
An act relating to the study of physiology and hy- 
giene in the public schools of the Commonwealth 
jand all educational institutions receiving aid from 
the State. 

Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House 
of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Penn- 
sylvania, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby 



84 TOBACCO SLAVE. 

enacted b} r the authority' of the same, that physi- 
ology and hygiene (which shall in each division of 
the subject so pursued include special reference to 
the effects of alcoholic drinks, stimulants and nar- 
cotics upon the human system), shall be included in 
the branches of study now required by law to be 
taught in the common schools, and be introduced 
and studied as a regular branch bj^all pupils in all 
departments of the public schools of the Common- 
wealth, and in all educational institutions supported 
wholly or in part by money from the same. 

Section 2. It shall be the duty of county, city, 
borough superintendents and boards of all educa- 
tional institutions, receiving aid from the Com- 
monwealth, to report to the Superintendent of 
Public Instruction any failure or neglect on the 
part of boards of school directors, boards of school 
controllers, boards of education and boards of all 
educational institutions receiving aid from the 
Commonwealth, to make proper provision in any 
and all of the schools or districts under their juris- 
diction for instruction in physiology and lu-giene, 
which in each division of the subject so pursued 
gives special reference to the effects of alcoholic 
drinks, stimulants and narcotics upon the human 
svstem, as required by this act, and such failures 
on the part of directors, controllers, boards of ed- 
ucation and boards of educational institutions re- 
ceiving money from the Commonwealth thus re- 
ported, or satisfactory proven, shall be deemed 
sufficient cause for withholding the warrant for 



TOBACCO SLAVE. 85 

State appropriation of school money to which such 
district or educational institution would otherwise 
be entitled. 

Section 3. No certificate shall be granted any 
person to teach in the public schools of the State, 
or in any of the educational institutions receiving 
money from the Commonwealth, after the first 
Monday of June, Anno Domini one thousand eight 
hundred and eighty-six who has not passed a sat- 
isfactory examination in ph3 r siology and hygiene 
with special reference to the effects of alcoholic 
drinks, stimulants and narcotics upon the human 
system. 

Section 4. All laws or parts of laws inconsistent 
with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed. 

SCHOOL CHILDREN. 

There are 16,000,000 school children in the United 
States, 10,000,000 of whom are enrolled in the pub- 
lic schools. 

Great Britain has now 10,000 Sunday school tem- 
perance organizations, with more than 10,000,000 
members. 

CIGARETTE PAPER. 

"There are three kinds of paper used in making 
cigarettes. They are made from cotton and linen rags 
and from rice straw. Cotton paper is made chiefly 
in Trieste, Austria, and the linen and rice paper in 
Paris. The first, manufactured from the filthy 
scrapings of ragpickers, is bought in large qnanti- 



86 TOBACCO SLAVE. 

ties b\ r the manufacturers, who turn it into pulp 
and subject it to a bleaching process to make it pre- 
sentable. The lime and other substances used in 
bleaching, have a very harmful influence upon the 
membranes of the throat and nose. Cotton pa- 
per is so cheap that a thousand cigarettes can be 
wrapped at a cost of only two cents. Rice paper is 
rather expensive. Tobacconized paper is manufac- 
tured. It is a common paper saturated with to- 
bacco in such a way as to imitate the veins of the 
tobacco leaf very neatl\\ It is used in making all- 
tobacco cigarettes. Arsenical preparations are 
also used in bleaching cigarette papers, and oil of 
creosote is produced naturally as a consequence of 
combustion. This is very injurious to the throat 
and lungs and is said to accelerate the development 
of consumption in any one predisposed to the dis- 
ease." — Mail and Express. 

BURMESE CUSTOMS. IDEAL LOVE MAKING AND SIM- 
PLE MARRIAGE CEREMONIES. AN INVETER- 
ATE HABIT WITH MEN, WOMEN 
AND CHILDREN. 

I bought two cigars to-day of a woman in 
the bazaar, writes Frank G. Carpenter from Ran- 
goon, Burmah. They are each a foot long, and 
one looks for all the world like a poorly developed 
ear of corn with the husk on. They are very mild, 
and have little tobacco in them, being made of 
owher leaves in connection with the tobacco. All 
of the Burmese people smoke — men women and 



TOBACCO SLAVE. 87 

children. I have not }*et seen any babies leave the 
breast for a whiff of a cigarette, (as the books on 
Burmah state they do), but I see many three and 
four j'car old children smoking, and the Burmese 
maiden learns to smoke as soon as she can walk. 
All of the girls are adepts in rolling cheroots, and 
in Burmese courting, the girl gives her lover cheroots 
rolled with her own hands and the two take, I 
doubt not, whiffs about in the smoking of them. 
It is common to pass the cig^r from one friend to 
another, and in a group of three girls, whom I 
watched having their fortunes told under the 
shadow of the great golden pagoda, I saw that one 
cigar did for a trio. 

PHYSIOLOGICAL ITEMS. HOW TO KNOW THE PRES- 
ENCE OF IMPURE AIR. 

It is estimated that the air in a room becomes 
distinctly bad for health when its carbonic acid 
exceeds 1 part in 1,000. An apparatus has been 
recentl\ r patented by Professor Wolpert, of Nurn- 
berg, which affords a measure of the carbonic acid 
present. From a vessel containing a red liquid 
(soda-solution with phenolphthalein) there comes 
ever\ r 100 seconds (through a siphon-arrangement), 
a red drop which trickles down a prepared white 
thread about a foot and a half long. Behind the 
thread is a scale beginning with "pure air" (up to 
0.7 per 1,000) at the bottom, and ending above 
with "extremely bad" (4 to 7 perl, 000 and more). 
In pure air the drop continues red down to the bot- 



88 TOBACCO SLAVE. 

torn, but it loses its color by the action of carbonic 
acid, and the more there is of that gas present, the 
sooner it shows the impurity. 

EMUXCTORIES, OR PORES. 

It is calculated that there is no less than twent}-- 
eight miles of this tubing on the surface of the hu- 
man bod}-, and that, on an average, from two to 
three pounds of water daily reach the surface 
through these channels, and are evaporated. It is 
supposed that at least one hundred grains of effete 
nitrogenous matter are daily thrown off from the 
skin. 

NOT SWEATING. 

There is a boy in Putnam county, Tenn. a son 
of Jefferson Lee, ten years of age, who, owing to 
the peculiar nature of his skin, has never been 
known to sweat a drop of perspiration in his life. 
Another phenomenal feature connected with the 
boy is that he has only four teeth, and he had these 
when born, having neither cut nor shed an}' since 
his birth. He is very much affected by the seasons. 
In the summer he gets exceedingly warm, and is 
compelled, in order to live at all, to keep his head 
and body wet with cold water, and falls off to al- 
most a skeleton, but when winter comes, and cold 
weather sets in, he is enabled to dispense with his 
bath and grows fat. He is said to be a sprightly 
boy, with plenty of sense. 



TOBACCO SLAVE. 89 

DRUGS IN TOBACCO. 

Baltimore, July 22. — The establishment of J. S. 
Young & Son, for the preparation of bark extracts 
used in the manufacture of tobacco, at Dranmead's 
wharf, Cor ton, was burned last night. Loss, 
$225,000 ; fully insured. 

OPIUM SMOKING AND OPIUM EATING. 

The Great Increase of the Curse in the United 
States. — Whole Families Being Ruined. — To per- 
sons unacquainted with the facts in the case, the 
figures that are recorded of the amount of opium 
and morphine smoked and used and the number of 
opium habitues in the United States to-day would 
look like pure fiction. Last 3 r ear over 92,000 
pounds of opium were used in this country, but 
36,000 of which w T as for medicinal purposes. 
A canvass of the drug stores and facts in the pos- 
session of opium experts reveal, at the lowest esti- 
mate, 57,000 opium takers, of which 17,600 are 
opium smokers (not Chinese, but American.) Again, 
96,700 hypodermic syringes, (for injecting mor- 
phine,)were manufactured and sold last year. 

When we consider that the large majorit}' of 
opium eaters were made such by the. carelessness 
of physicians who prescribed this drug without 
proper precautions, it shows up the medical profes- 
sion in no very enviable light. 

REDUCTION IN SIZE. 

When Europeans first visited New Zealand, they 



90 TOBACCO SLAVE. 

found in the native Maoris the most finely devel- 
oped and powerful men of am^ of the tribes inhab- 
iting the islands on the Pacific. Since the intro- 
duction of tobacco, for which the Maoris developed 
a passionate liking, they have from this cause 
alone, it is said, become decimated in numbers, and 
at the same time reduced in stature and in ph\-sical 
well-being so as to be an altogether inferior t} T pe 
of men. 

If temperance societies would suggest an anti- 
dote against hunger, filth, and foul air, gin palaces 
would be numbered among the things that were. 

[Sketches by Boz. 

Virtuous Belgium leads the world in tippling. 
The 5,000,000 inhabitants of that little country 
annually consume about 60,000,000 quarts of al- 
coholic liquors. There is an average of one public 
house for every twelve adult Belgians, and in some 
parts of the country the supply is nearly twice as 
great. 

Illinois has over 3,000,000 people and 11,000 
liquor saloons — an average of 272 to each saloon. 

There are 8,000,000 tobacco seeds in a pound. 

THE SABBATH. 

The commandment Keep the Sabbath Day Holy 
emenated from God himself, and without any ref- 
erence to this divine law, let me say as a ph\ T si- 
cian, ever\ r working man who uses up either the 
vitality of his body or brain during the six da}^s of 



TOBACCO SLAVE. 91 

labor, needs one clay of rest for recuperation, and 
he cannot revitalize his body while engaged in sell- 
ing rum or tobacco, or while pouring ardent spirits 
into his stomach, or making his mouth a recepta- 
cle for this devilish weed. Some of our street cor- 
ners where men do congregate, look like last year's 
pigeons' roost, so full of nastiness. The filthy de- 
posits from ulcerated cancerous throats are con- 
stant nuisances to all well bred persons. Ladies 
are especially annoyed while passing these filth de- 
positories, fearingtheir skirts will be contaminated 
by contact, or some of the victims to this 
terrible habit will expectorate (unintentionally) a 
mouthful of filth upon their dresses. It is a source 
of rest and is of decided benefit (physically) for any- 
one to attend a church service. It rests the body 
and improves the intellect, no matter how debased 
through any pernicious habits. The Sabbath 
breakers hence are incapacitated from doing a good 
day's work on Monday. Thefrequentersofsaloons 
or shops where tobacco is sold, slowly and sureW 
drift into gambling in some way or another, and 
soon become proficient in swearing, and thus take 
the initiatory steps towards w r orse crimes. Go in- 
to aiu^ village, or city, of any state or territory of 
our vast union, and listen at the doors of these 
venders of malodorous substances and you will 
hear the unfortunately common oaths : "God damn 
you." 

If a celestial from the interior of China should 
visit our cities for the first time, he would soon 



92 TOBACCO SLAVE 

come to the conclusion that every effort was being 
made and that the great aim of Americans was 
studiously and regularly to keep their stomach 
and intestines Full of alchoholic stimulants, and 
their mouths stuffed with tobacco. If the efforts 
are only continued, and no one rises up to stop this 
suicidal career of our people, it will be only a mat- 
ter of time when our girls, boys, women and men 
will be engulfed in this terrible maelstrom. 

Physicians, lawyers and clergymen are all set- 
ting the bad example of using tobacco, ?nd if the 
educated indicate that their mission of life is to 
perform such filthy work, certainly the rank and 
file will follow the ill-timed example. 

Seven-eights of every county in Pennsylvania is 
represented by farmers who grow tobacco. $300 
an acre has been paid in Lancaster county for land 
to grow this weed, and in due time our other crops 
will woefully decrease as the demand increases for 
this satanic growth. Spittoons will be found in all 
our domicile^, schools, stores, offices, halls and 
churches, and sudden deaths from the ill effects of 
the poisonous w T eeds will be as common as flowers 
in mid-summer. 

After my half centur\ r 's experience of the baneful 
effects of this potent poison, seen daily without re- 
quiring any effort for the investigation, I say ad- 
visedly, (with the ability, if required to make an 
array of thousands of eases of injury to health by 
its use, not only of the mouth, but of every organ 
of the body) that the very first introduction of it 



TOBACCO SLAVE. 93 

into the mouth of anyone, does harm as soon as it 
enters, which is plainly perceptible to any critical, 
honest seeker after truth, and the evil effects 
are slowly and insiduously making their marks 
upon the unfortunate who thus stupefies himself 
by this unnatural use of the mouth. The tobacco 
cough is common all over the world. Listen to it 
and you will soon recognize it. Something in the 
throat seems, just for a minute, to strangle; 
then a short, quick, convulsive cough, which only 
occasionalh- manifests itself, increased in frequency 
as the throat becomes more inflamed. Premature 
death is sure to come to all such victims. Of 
the thousands who die suddenly (drop while at 
their homes, shops or in their beds, or in the streets), 
the vast major^are users of this narcotic in some 
form. It stops the beating of the heart. 

EARLY TRAINING. 

Let me again repeat the axiom : There is no 
safer or more intelligent way in the world than 
to start with your bo}'s and girls as soon as they 
full}- comprehend am-thing and teach them the ill 
results to the body, life and soul from the use of in- 
toxicants, hasheesh, opium, cocoaine and tobacco, 
and the uselessness and wickedness of using oaths. 
First impressions, whether right or wrong, good 
or bad, are very apt to be indelibly impressed upon 
the mind, and will influence your actions through 
life. 



94 TOBACCO SLAVE. 

My father kept a tavern when I was born and 
my first memory is of events that happened in the 
immense bar-room at Batavia, N. Y. with its huge 
fireplace and the big andirons, and bigger burning 
logs on them. My honorable sire, about the 
time ofrny first appearance, discontinued the use 
of tobacco and stimulants himself and threw 
them out of his house, and became an advocate for 
temperance. In this manner my mind was, in 
infancy, imbued with right impressions. My fath- 
er, besides giving up the sale of above intoxi- 
cants, devoted a room in his hotel to temperance 
publications, was one of the trustees and built the 
First Presb3'terian Church, and up to his death 
lived a life consistent with this platform. 

[From the Independent of 1887]. 

" It is just twenty-three \^ears ago to-day since I 
was mustered out of the Bucktail regiment at Camp 
Curtain," said Joseph H. Meek, foreman of the 
Call office, to another old printer, who recalled 
the fact, for Meek began to work on the Evening 
Telegraph after heleft thearmyjune 11, 1864. Mr. 
Meek was in fourteen battles and skirmishes with- 
out receiving a wound, and of 1,600 men, of which 
the regiment was composed, only twenty-one es- 
caped uninjured. Mr. Aleck is one of these twenty- 
one and is now in full health and spirits, a veteran 
who could even } r et stand the brunt of battle with 
a shooting-stick that carries death in its muzzle. " 

I cut the above article out to impress everyone 



TOBACCO SLAVE. 95 

with the fact that notwithstanding this man es- 
caped injury during the rebellion, he was the excep- 
tion to the general rule. So you will occasionally 
find a man who has used tobacco to old age, but 
thousands who started with him have died pre- 
maturly. 

TAKEN TO PHILADELPHIA. 

The remains of the ex-Alderman Geiger, of the 
Auditor General's Department, were taken to Phil- 
adelphia to-day in charge of Resident Clerk Chas. 
E. Voorhees. Air. Geiger was a member of the Un- 
ion Republican Club, and was prominent in Repub- 
lican politics for twenty-eight \^ears. The funeral 
will take place to-morrow. 

[From Call, Sept. 29, 1887]. 

Air. Geiger died in the Capitol building suddenly, 
Sept. 28th without any warning. He was an hab- 
itual user of tobacco. 

ARTIFICIAL APPETITE. 

Out of the thousands of persons with whom I 
have conversed who were using tobacco, I never 
knew of a single instance where the desire for it was 
not induced by frequent attempts to chew or smoke 
it. The majority are sickened, and often vomit 
when first it is placed in the mouth. There is in 
man a natural disinclination to use it. 



96 TOBACCO SLAVE. 

HOW QUICK IT KILLS. 

Chambers's Encyclopedia says death has taken 
place from injections of tobacco into the rectum. 

GOOD POSITION. 

In September, 1886, The Lutheran Synod met 
at Gettysburg, Pa. and passed the following reso- 
lution : 

" Resolved, That this S\^nod will not hereafter 
receive nor retain as a beneficiary any 3^oung man 
who indulges in tobacco in any form.'* 

ANTl CHRISTIAN. 

Methodist conferences in Wisconsin have de- 
clared their belief that Christian men ought not to 
raise or sell tobacco. Thirty thousand acres of 
the plant were under cultivation in the state, and 
much comment has been aroused. 

HABITS. 

To further prove how easil\ T we imitate or fol- 
low bad or good examples, let me say that in 1718 
coffee was first introduced into the West Indies. It 
then began to 'spread through North America and 
in 1880 over three hundred and twenty-three mil- 
lions of pounds were consumed in the United States 
alone. 

EFFECTS OF SMOKING. 

Malac.ii Regan, a gentleman fifty years of age, 
who resides at Steelton, Pa. had a cancer tumor cut 



TOBACCO SLAVE. 97 

from the left side of his lower lip at the City Hos- 
pital yesterday. He has always been a great 
smoker and about ten years ago notieed a small 
formation on the lower lip where his pipe rested. 
This has been growing rapidly from the irritation 
given it by his pipe, and it became necessary to 
have it cut out. 

NICOTINE. 

Aphysician calls attention to the fact that if 
tobacco smoke be instantly ejected from the mouth 
and throat before descending into the chest and be 
made to pass through a cambric handkerchief 
drawn tightly across the open lips, a permanent 
deep 3 r ellow stain, corresponding in size and shape 
to the opening between the lips, and having nu- 
merous spots of a darker hue pervading it, will be 
left on the handkerchief. 

DR. HITCHCOCK. 

A violent hater of tobacco is Dr. Hitchcock, the 
Professor of Athletics at Amherst College. He at- 
tributes to its immoderate use, (especially bv imma- 
ture young men,) all sorts of physical and mental 
ailments, and predicts that a quarter of a century 
more of excess will produce a generation of weak- 
lings. 

ACTION OF TOBACCO. 

Dr. Treitaski has made a number of observations 
upon the effects produced on the temperature and 
pulse by smoking. He found that in every case, 



98 TOBACCO SLAVE. 

varying according to the condition of the individ- 
ual there was an acceleration of the pulse rate and 
a slight elevation of the temperature. If the average 
temperature of non-smokers was represented by 
1,000, that of moderate smokers would be 1,008, 
and while the heart in the former case was making 
1,000 pulsations, in the latter it would beat 1,008 
times. It is in the latter effect that he thinks the 
danger of tobacco-smoking is manifested. — Journal 
de Medcine de Bruxelles. 

DEATH OF SIJRO DELMONICO. 

Another of the Delmonicos is dead. Siro Del- 
monico, one of the famous caterers of New York, 
died suddenly at his residence Tuesday morning, 
aged 57. Siro, like his brother whose death took 
place a few weeks ago, fell a victim to the effects of 
excessive smoking. He had been poisoned by nico- 
tine. It is one thing to smoke in moderation, or 
even to what is ordinarily- known as excess. It is 
quite another to use the weed like the departed 
caterer. His cigars were made to order, so that 
they might have the desired strength, and he had 
one in his mouth all the time. A better illustration 
of the potential strength of the tobacco habit 
could hardly be imagined. 

a girl's passion for tobacco. 

[From the Norwich, (N. Y.) Telegraph.] 

. A girl about twelve years of age is frequently 
seen on our streets, and is truly an object to excite 



TOBACCO SLAVE. 99 

pit}'. She is poorly clad, and sometimes wears an 
old blanket over her head, but more frequently is 
bareheaded. Her passion is tobacco. She smokes 
continuously. She enters our groceries and asks 
for pipe and tobacco. If she obtains the weed she 
is perfectly happy. Whatever intellect she everhad 
seems muddled by her uncontrolled habit. Her 
face is pale and her eyes heavy and dull. Our 
youthful cigarette smokers should take a good 
look at this unfortunate girl. It might lead them 
to restrain their appetite for the deadly nicotine. 

ITS IEE EFFECTS. 

Here is a boy who has never used tobacco. 

"CharW, will } r ou help us to try an experi- 
ment ?" 

"I will, sir." 

" Here is a piece of plug tobacco as large as a 
pea. Put it in your mouth and chew it. Don't let 
one drop go clown your throat, but spit every drop 
of juice into the spittoon. Keep on chewing, spit- 
ting, chewing, spitting." 

Before he is done triturating that little piece of 
bacco, simply squeezing the juice out of it without 
swallowing a drop, he will lie there on the plat- 
form in a cold, death-like perspiration. Put your 
finger on his wrist. There is no pulse. He will 
seem for two or three hours to be dying. 

Again : steep a plug of tobacco in a quart of wa- 
ter, and bathe the neck and back of a calf troubled 



100 TOBACCO SLAVE. 

with vermin. You will kill the vermin, but if not 
very careful 3'ou will kill the calf, too. 

These experiments show that tobacco in its or- 
dinary state is an extremely powerful poison. 

BAD BREATH. 

May never lady press his lips, 

His proffered love returning, 
Who makes a furnace of his mouth, 

And keeps its chimnej r burning. 

May each true woman shun his sight 
For fear his fumes might choke her, 

And none but those who smoke themselves 
Have kisses for a smoker. 

CONCERNING THE HABIT OF SMOKING. 

Several reasons have been assigned for growing 
tobacco in England. One that should have been 
obvious, however, has been overlooked. Either 
smoking must he encouraged by making the loath- 
some plant a native of the soil, or England as a 
smoking country will soon be nowhere. The people 
who have never been able to see the justice of al- 
lowing others a cigar when they do not smoke 
themselves, will learn with surprise that the aver- 
age Belgian smokes four times as much as the aver- 
age Englishman. There are five hundred and fifty 
pounds of tobacco consumed in Belgium for every 
one hundred inhabitants. Holland, Germairy and 
Austria come next, and France stands seventh. Of 
all the European countries, England very nearly 



TOBACCO SLAVE. 101 

smokes least. Spain, which is the lowest on the 
list, averages over one pound per head, and Eng- 
land's average is only one hundred and thirty-eight 
pounds per one hundred inhabitants. If Spain did 
not fritter away its time over cigarettes, England 
would be the country that smokes the least in 
Europe. — St. James 1 Gazette. 

MEXICAN HABITS. 

In Mexico nearly every one is a smoker. The 
school children who have done well in their studies 
are rewarded by being allowed to smoke a cigar as 
they stand or sit at their lessons. The schoolmas- 
ter is seldom without a cigar in his mouth. In the 
law courts, all persons commonly enjoy their to- 
bacco freely, and even the accused in a criminal 
trial is not denied this indulgence, but is allowed, 
if his cigarette goes out in the heat of the argu- 
ment, to light it again by borrowing that of the 
officer w T ho stands at his side to guard him. 

NO SMOKERS. 

Right here to give you a breath of good air, and 
to let you know that there are men of intelligence 
who have never used the filthy weed, let me intro- 
duce 

HABITS OF SUCCESSFUL MEN. 

Of the men in New York who can justly make 
some claim to success in this life, the following do 
not drink, smoke or chew: Chauncey Mitchell De- 
pew, Jay Gould, Russell Sage, Cyrus W. Field, 



102 TOBACCO SLAVE 

Henry Clews, Stephen Van Cullen White, Commo- 
dore Arthur Egerton Batcman, Collector Magone, 
Washington E. Connor, Alexander E. Orr, John D. 
Slayback and Pat Sheed\\ 

Dr. O. S. Taylor of Auburn, N. Y. was born 
Dec. 17, 1784, and was alive and hearty Jan. 15, 
1885, and never used any tobacco or stimulents. 
He lived up to the laws of nature, and was always 
regular in his habits. 

THE SMOKER'S CATARRH. 

Habitual smokers, (says the British Medical 
Journal,) are notoriously liable to colds in the head, 
bronchitis and other congestive affections of the 
air passage. On this subject, Dr. J. F. Rumboid 
says in {Hygiene of Catarrh) : "The congestion oc- 
sioned by the action of tobacco on the mucous 
membrane of the superior portion of the respira- 
tory tract resembles, in many respects, the conges- 
tion resulting from the effects of a cold. The local 
effect of tobacco on the mucous membrane of the 
faose, throat and ears is as predisposing to catarr- 
hal disease as is inefficient and insufficient cloth- 
ing in the case of females. The local effect of to- 
acco on the mucous membrane of the superior por- 
tion of the respiratoiw tract, causes a more perma- 
nent relaxation and congestion than any known 
agent. As tobacco depresses the system while it is 
producing its pleasurable sensation, and as it pre- 
pares the mucous membrane (by causing a more 
permanent relaxation and congestion than any 



TOBACCO SLAVE. 103 

known agent) to take on catarrhal inflammation 
from even slight exposure to cold, it should require 
no farther evidence to show that its use ought to 
be discontinued by every catarrhal patient. The 
only question remaining to be answered is, shall 
its use be discontinued at once, or shall the victim 
4 taper off' in his endeavor to become master of him- 
self?" 

The writer acknowledges but one successful 
method, viz. its discontinuance at once. 

MOROCCO ON THE WARPATH. 

In the Sunday Magazine of F. Leslie's of June 
1S87, it says: "The Sultan of Morocco has abol- 
ished the State tobacco monopoly. A regular cru- 
sade against it has been inagu rated, tobacco and 
snuff shops have been closed, and large quantities 
have been burned publicly by the Sultan's order. 

SNUFFING. 

A luck}- capture of Spanish galleons, laden with 
choice snuffs from Havana, had inaugurated the 
reign of Queen Annie, and been the means of intro- 
ducing into England the Continental fashion of 
snuff-taking. Wagon-loads of the "titillating 
dust" thus imported being publicly sold at 3d. and 
49. a pound, the box soon rivaled and at length 
eclipsed the pipe. Sir Plume, M of amber snuffjustly 
vain," became a character, and was kept in coun- 
tenance as well by "the fair" at the drawing room 
as the Chairman in the streets. To parod} T a well- 



104 TOBACCO SLAVE. 

known line, " Snuff ruled the Court, the camp, the 
grove." Snuff-taking was elevated to the rank of 
a passion by the wits and beaux of societ\\ To of- 
fer a box gracefully became an educational require- 
ment, and a general flourish of snuff-boxes took 
place, if not "all over the land," as Cowper said, 
at least from Pall Mall to the 'Change. A pinch to 
conciliate, a pinch to contemn ; a pinch gave pun- 
gency to the jest, a relish to sarcasm, and equally 
served to cover embarrassment and chagrin. Tal- 
leyrand used to say — and he was a priseur — that 
the snuff-box was essential to all great politicians, 
as time for thought in answering awkward ques- 
tions was gained in taking, or pretending to take 
a pinch. Certainly prince Metternich was devoted 
to the box, and diplomatists generally appeared to 
have viewed it with favor, as well, indeed, they 
might, when some £8000 or £9000 were expanded 
in the purchase of boxes for presentation to foreign 
Ministers at the coronation of George IV. 



SNUFF DIPPING. 

The disgusting habit of snuff-dipping has spread 
among the female operatives in Massachusetts 
factories to an alarming extent. A year ago the 
Catholic Bishop of the State, publicly forbade this 
use of the weed, and for a time there was a consid- 
erable falling off in the sales of snuff, but the pro- 
hibition has now become practically a dead letter. 



TOBACCO SLAVE. 105 



SMOKING IN HOLLAND. 



The love the Dutch have for tobacco is well known. 
Nearly every man one meets in the streets has a ci- 
gar in his mouth; nor, unhappily is the habit con- 
fined to adults. Hundreds of juveniles are addicted 
to smoking, and they may be seen at almost any 
time enjoying the weed with all the nonchalance 
of grown-up men. Indeed, they often indulge in 
the habit in the company of their parents, who do 
not seem to attempt to discountenance a practice 
which in this country and in England has always 
been considered injurious to children, and the act 
itself, so far as they are concerned, highly unbecom- 
ing. It is amusing, but not agreeable, to be 
stopped in the street by an urchin four feet high, 
who exhibits the stump of a half-consumed cigar, 
and with unlimited assurance asks you for "en 
beetje vuur" (a little fire). Of course, unless you 
wish to be considered impolite, yon must stoop to 
allow him to make use of the lighted end of your 
Havana, while all the time } t ou may bedoinggreat 
violence to your feelings. 

The consumption of tobacco in Holland is enor- 
mous. There are some Dutchmen who smoke reg- 
ular^ from ten to twelve cigars each day. Xo 
w r onder that in most of the streets the tobacco- 
nists' shops are neither few nor far between. In 
many of the principal offices smoking is going on 
all day, and tobacco would seeem to be as much a ne- 
cessity in the counting-house as pens, ink, and paper. 



106 TOBACCO SLAVE 

The lower orders in Holland often smoke cigars 
which cost less than a cent each. Some may even 
be purchased at the rate of five or six for two cents, 
not cigars made of brown paper handay, or dried 
cabbage leaf, but real tobacco. The tobacco from 
which these are made is grown chiefly in the neigh- 
borhood of Utrecht. 

It is stated that the plant was first cultivated in 
Holland in the year 1615. Harper's Weekly. 

SMOKING IN RUSSIA. 

The smoke which most forces itself upon the at- 
tention of travellers in Russia is not the smoke 
of the ''peasant's towns." It is the smoke caused 
by the burning of tobacco in the debatable and 
much debated fashion pursued in the countries of 
Western Europe. Here, however, lack of power or 
want of will to smoke is well nigh unintelligible. 
A man who objects to smoking is a much more in- 
sufferable nuisance than the man who insists upon 
smoking. The Russians do not divide society in- 
to smokers and non-smokers; they decline to make 
railway carnages a sort of battle-ground for those 
who love the weed and those who do not; they 
refrain from suggesting, either hy word or deed, 
that a man's social qualities or respectability can 
be at all correctly inferred from his attitude toward 
tobacco. The reason for this is that everj^body 
smokes in Russia, and provision is made ac- 
ordingly. Save the church, no place is here sacred 
from the weed. The pap3 7 ros is no respector of 



TOBACCO SLAVE. 107 

domestic sanctities. Every chamber of every well- 
kept house has its pepeinitsa for the reception of 
cigar ashes. Hotels have similar conveniences, 
smoking being practiced as well as permitted in 
every accessible apartment in these buildings. In 
England the railway traveler is left to dispose of 
his cigar ashes either by depositing them on the 
floor of the compartment or by disposing of them 
through the window. In the formercase the result 
is always uncleanliness — in the latter the wind 
sometimes interferes with the smokers project, not 
always to the convenience of his fellow-passengers. 
Here railway authorities provide a small box or 
receptacle in each carriage for the use of those 
who smoke. The " tobacco question" is all the 
more easy to deal with in Russia for the reason that 
women smoke as well as men. The Russians them- 
selves — (I am here giving a masculine opinion of 
the masculine sex) — are inclined to disparage fem- 
inine indulgence in the w r eed and to regard the 
women who smoke as socially "fast." It is true 
enough that one sees few women smoking in the 
street. Public use of tobacco in the daytime is 
confined among the female sex to the peasant 
classes. At the same time disinclination to be con- 
sidered "fast" is no proof of a woman's incapacity 
to consume large quantities of tobacco. As a mat- 
ter of fact the middle and the upper classes in St. 
Petersburg are all of them, with rare exceptions, 
inveterate smokers. The silver or gold papyros 
case is much more indispensable than a fan to a 



i 

108 TOBACCO SLAVE. 

lady mixing in societ3 r . To be without cigars is to 
be careless of one's reputation. For a guest lady 
or gentleman, to decline a papyros, is one of the 
most serious social offenses that can be com- 
mitted. 

THE SMOKING NUISANCE. 

If a farmer can have choice between the man who 
smokes and the one who does not he cannot afford 
to hire the smoker. The smoker spends too much 
time hunting for his pipe and tobacco and firing up 
when at work, and though he pretends to smoke 
and work at the same time the pipe takes most of 
his attention, and the employer's incerests suffer. 
But more than this occurs — smoking makes a man 
lazy. The first effect is to brace him up a little, but 
a few moments later it relaxes his sinews, his ener- 
gies flag, and he feels like crawling under the shade 
and taking a nap. I know how it is, for I am an 
occasional smoker myself. If I have business on 
hand I postpone smoking, knowing by experience 
that it unfits me for labor, mental or physical. 

I did not realize how- many times a day my men 
smoked until I employed them in the office during 
rainy weather. Some of them could not dispense 
with smoking from the morning until the noon bell, 
but wanted to indulge two or three times, feeling 
uneasy under the restraint. I do not doubt these 
men would smoke six or eight times daily in the 
fields, and eve^ smoke would entail the loss often 
minutes, say one hour each da}-, or one day per 



« 

TOBACCO SLAVE. 109 

month — a loss of $12 for eight months. Iassume 
that the risk of having a smoker about the prem- 
ises is worth another $12 per eight months. No 
matter how careful the men may try to be, they 
are liable to lay the burning pipe or cigar down 
and forget it until the buildings are in flames, or 
drop a match in an absent-minded moment that 
costs the proprietor several thousand dollars. 

Again I say I know how it is myself. I am one 
of the most cautious of men, and never enter a barn 
or shop with a lighted cigar, nor light one in the 
barn. One day, desiring to enter the barn, I laid my 
lighted cigar on a block two rods awav, between 
the barns and a woodshed. Coming out of the 
barn I was met by some visitors and the cigar was 
forgotten. We w r alked down through the berry 
fields, and w hen we came back we found people 
fighting fire. The cigar had been blown off the 
block. It fell down among dry chips and litter, 
and we came near being burned out. Smoking is 
not only a foolish w r aste of time and money but a 
source of danger to property; it undermines health 
and unless the occasional devotee is scrupulously 
neat makes him less companionable. The inveter- 
ate, perpetual smoker is a nuisance. 

The above article was written and printed by 
my namesake (whom I have never seen), Chas. A. 
Greene, the eminent Agriculturalist of Rochester, 
N. Y. 



110 TOBACCO SLAVE. 

CRUSADE AGAINST CIGARETTES. THE SUPERINTEN- 
DENT OF THE NEWARK PUBLIC SCHOOLS 
JOINS THE MOVEMENT. 

Trenton, Sept. 28. The fight against cigar- 
ettes in this state has now assumed proportions 
that make it especially noteworthy. There has 
certainly never been a more unique crusade. Be- 
ginning as it did with the requests of a few business 
men in the leading cities to know why the anti- 
cigarette law of 1884 was not enforced, it has now 
reached the grasp of the public school teachers, 
who have taken it up with a vengeance. The bus- 
iness men's movement is in self-defence. They find 
cigarettes unnerve and unfit boys in their employ 
for work. The teachers' movement is a purely ben- 
eficial one. They want to stop a habit because 
it is bad and destructive to health. 

The leader in this latest movement is Superinten- 
dent Barringer, of the Newark public schools. He 
has sent notices to all the teachers of the state, re- 
questing their aid. In an interview with } r our cor- 
respondent, Mr. Barringer outlined the nature of 
this work. "The cigarette smoking habit," said 
he, "has become so general among school bo\^s that 
there is scarcely one in a dozen over twelve 3'ears 
of age that is not addicted to it. Teachers all over 
the state have done all the\^ could to discourage 
the habit, but without success. We believe the only 
way to put a stop to it, is to prosecute the sellers 
of the paper-covered lung destroyers. We propose 



TOBACCO SLAVE. Ill 

to proceed against both smokers and sellers. The 
boys can be suspended from school, and if the\- con- 
tinue the practice the\- can be expelled. Nearly 
every candy store sells cigarettes, and the pennies 
parents give children for sponges, pencils, etc. are 
spent for cigarettes. The poorest quality of the 
article is sold. Physicians affirm that opium is 
largely used, and it is certain that the lung and 
throat troubles are produced by cigarette smoking." 

LEPROSY FROM CHINESE CIGARETTES. 

Leprosy, says a physician of San Francisco, has 
not a few victims among the whites. Especially is 
it revealing itself about the lips and tongues of 
bo3^s who smoke cheap cigarettes made by Chinese 
lepers. The disease, though fatal, is slow in giving 
tokens of its first approaches. The doctor knows 
of one hundred and seventy cases, the majority 
largely Mongolian. The disease is highly conta- 
gious; sleeping in bed clothes handled by infected 
Chinese servants, even sitting on the chairs they 
have used, handling the same things, etc. is dan- 
gerous. The disease often is not observable for 
four or five years, and then only by physicians ac- 
customed to examining such patients. In the 
Sandwich Islands, an island is set apart for lepers. 
The hospital has at this time eight hundred lepers, 
A vigilent e\ r e is kept on the lookout for traces of 
incipient leprosy. When observed the.person is at 
once sent to the hospital, but a great many a r e 
concealed b3' friends, and thus the disease spreads. 



112 TOBACCO SLAVE. 

No case is discharged cured. One doctor claims 
to have counteracted recent developements by in- 
occulation. The leper does not suffer much pain 
until his fingers and toes drop off. When the lep- 
rous sores are still on their hands they work in 
Chinese cigar factories and give a wide spread to 
the infection. Clothes washer-men do the same. 

ANOTHER CIGARETTE VICTIM. 

Troy, N. Y. Dec, 28, 1887. Cigarette smoking 
numbers another victim in Richard H. Barringer, 
a popular }-oung man of this city. He was a con- 
stant smoker. An affection of the heart was fol- 
lowed by dropsy. Several physicians attended 
him, and they all agreed that nicotine poisoning 
had so shattered his system that recovery was im- 
possible. He is dead at the age of twenty-five 
years. Up to a few years ago he had a fine phy- 
sique and was believed to have good prospects of 
long life. After his death one of his veins burst, 
and the blood therefrom was almost as black as ink. 

DRIVEN CRAZY BY CIGARETTES. 

[Detroit Special to Pittsburg Dispatch.'] 
During the past seventeen months an unusually 
large number of young men have been sent to the 
insane asylum in this state. It happens that near- 
ly all of them were large consumers of cigarettes, 
and this fact has given rise to the report that cigar- 
ette smoking was the cause of their insanity. In 
several cases this is positively known to be the 



TOBACCO SLAVE. 113 

case, and there is consequently considerable alarm 
felt by parents for their cigarette-consuming sons. 

INFATUATED WITH CIGARETTES. A BOY SELLS 

HIS SISTER'S BEDDING TO GET 

SMOKING MONEY. 

New York, Nov. 25. — James Clarke, aged four- 
teen years, of No. 413 West Thirty-ninth street, 
was placed before the bar in Jefferson Market po- 
lice court on complaint of his married sister, Mrs. 
Alice O'Brien, of No. 456 West Thirty-fifth street, 
who stated that the boy was a fit subject for some 
reformatoiw. Clarke'smother and father are both 
dead, and eversincehismother'sdeath, (a few weeks 
ago,) he has, among other bad habits, become an 
inveterate cigarette smoker. To obtain money for 
this purpose he took the feather beds and pillows 
out of the house, that were worth $25, and sold 
them to a furniture dealer for $1.50. 

\ 

A BOY FALLS VICTIM TO THE NOISOME CIGARETTE. 

An eleven-year-old son of Joseph Seathamdied at 
Tamaqua, Pa. suddenly on Saturday. Yesterday 
it was decided to hold a post mortem examination 
to ascertain the cause of death, for the bo\ r had 
been in apparent good health up to a few moments 
of his death. The ph\-sicians decided that death 
was caused by enlargement of the heart, due to 
excessive cigarette smoking. 



114 TOBACCO SLAVE 

THE USE OF TOBACCO. 

The first effect of tobacco when smoked is, that 
it depresses the heart's action, and this produces 
an irritated condition of this organ known as "to- 
bacco heart." Another is that it retards devel- 
opment, and should therefore never be used by 
youths. • 

There is always going on in the body a system 
of waste and repair. The waste is carried away 
by the natural channels and perspiration. Those 
who chew, stimulate the salivary glands to such 
activitj'that some of the work of the kidneys is act- 
ually performed by these glands, a thought which, 
to say the least, is not pleasant. 

Nicotine is a nearly colorless fluid which is re- 
duced to crystals with difficulty. It has a strong 
odor of tobacco, a burning taste, and is extremely 
poisonous. A half-ounce of tobacco is said to con- . 
tain enough nicotine to prove fatal. To be sure, 
smokers only get a small portion of this into their 
systems, but it is this poison which affects those 
who smoke to excess, or those who are growing, 
are nervous, or have a tendenc}' to heart disease. 

As a medicine, tobacco was used in former years 
to a considerable extent, but more recently it has 
fallen into disuse because of the large number of 
deaths resulting from its internal administration. 

It is sometimes used as a remedy in poisoning 
by str\ r chnine, as its action is directly opposed to 
that of strychnine, and it is also used in lockjaw. 



TOBACCO SLAVE. 115 

For pc vsoning by tobacco, alcohol is a good rem- 
edy, which is the reason men can smoke so much 
while drinking alcoholic beverages. As a poison, 
nicotine is so virulent that death ensues almost 
instantly. A case is reported of a man who com- 
mitted suicide by taking an unknown amount. 
He fell immediately to the floor, sighed deeply, and 
in three minutes was dead. 

NOTE. 

I cut the above article out of a newspaper. It 
contains some valuable truths. 

EFFECTS OF SMOKING. 

A reporter of a New York paper recently inter- 
viewed Dr. W. A. Hammond on the effects of smok- 
ing, and he gave the result of his professional ex- 
perience as follows: 

" If children smoke cigars they destroy their ner- 
vous systems before they are fully formed, and 
render themselves liable to neuralgia and various 
functional diseases of the brain, which are certaiuly 
calculated to destroy their mental force. There 
is also evidence to show that tobacco in young 
persons actually interferes with the development 
of the bod}- in regard to size — that it stunts their 
physical system. It Certainly impairs digestion 
for they cannot use tobacco without spitting inor- 
dinately. The saliva expelled from their bodies is 
one of the most important of the digestive fluids 
and the proper digestion of the food in the stomach 



116 TOBACCO SLAVE. 

is materially interfered with when there is not 
enough saliva left to mix with their food before it 
is swallowed. Again, it certainly impairs hearing 
and eyesight. I have seen several instances of 
young children having their e\'esight injured se- 
rioush r , if not irreparably, by the use of tobacco. 
The excessive use of tobacco is injurious to everj'- 
body, adults as well as infants, male as well as fe- 
male/' 

"Now as to cigarette-smoking. It is injurious to 
everybody, practiced as it ordinarily is by inhaling 
the smoke into the lungs. The use of cigarettes 
has been increasing to a most extraordinary degree 
in this country in the last ten 3 r ears. I have already 
seen the ill effects of it in my practice, in the pro- 
duction of facial neuralgia, insomnia, nervous d} T s- 
pepsia, sciatica, and an indisposition to mental exer- 
tion. In young persons all these afflictions are seen 
with much greater intensity, and, consequently, 
the effect upon them is very much worse than upon 
adults. In France the difference between those 
who smoked cigarettes in the polytechnic schools 
and those who did not, as to their position in 
their classes, was so great that the Government 
has prohibited absolutely the use of tobacco in all 
State schools. Some time ago I was consulted 
b\' Commodore Foxhall Parker, then superin- 
tendent of the Naval Academy at Annapolis, 
relative to the advisability of allowing the cadets 
to smoke. He stated in hisletter that it was almost 
an impossibility to prohibit the practice, and put 



TOBACCO SLAVE. 117 

the question whether it wasn't better to allow 
them to smoke under regulations than to punish 
them constantly for violation of rules. I replied 
that it was a matter of discipline; but that, so 
far as the effects of tobacco were concerned, I had 
no hesitation in saying that its influences would 
be injurious to the cadets, and that I had constant 
evidence of it in my private observations other- 
wise. 

WHAT SMOKERS USE. 

A new fact has come to light connected with 
cigarettes, that one would think w r ould arrest the 
growing practice of smoking, especially by women. 
The finer sensibilities of women have hitherto been 
sufficient to prevent the general use of tobacco in 
any form by them. But there are women to-day 
who use cigarettes, and the use tends to degreda- 
tion altogether beyond what comes of being a slave 
to the viie weed. 

It is known that old cast-away cigar-stumps are 
used in the manufacture of cigarettes. Boys are 
employed to gather them from hotels, bar-rooms, 
side-walks; from wherever they are thrown. Col- 
lectors buy them of the boys and send them to the 
manufactories by the barrel. No matter how dis- 
gusting the spot whence they are picked ; whether 
from the spittoon with its dangerous saliva, or the 
gutter with its filth, the foul refuse finds its way 
into the mouth and nostrils of the cigarette- 
smoker. 



118 TOBACCO SLAVE. 

But this is not all. Mam" a smokerthrows away 
his cigar because he does not like the flavor of it. 
He does not know why the odor is unpleasant to 
him, but it is caused by nicotine — the active princi- 
ple of tobacco, and a violent poison. This accumu- 
lates in the base of the cigar with every draught of 
the smoke, and the man, noticing the unpleasant 
smell, throws the stump away. This reservoir of 
nicotine finds its way into the cigarette, and the 
person who smokes it gets (in a condensed form,) 
the poison which works mischief on the brains of 
habitual smokers. 

But even this is not the worst of it. These cigar- 
stumps have been in the mouths of all sorts of men 
— drunkards; fast young men; rotten old rogues, 
whose very kiss, or touch, or even the pencil they 
have held in their mouths might communicate the 
foulest and most fearful disease that comes to a 
human being. And yet cigarettes are smoked by 
men, women and boys. 

UNPLEASANT OCCUPATION. 

The States of New York and New Hampshire 
and Nebraska have made laws to keep boys from 
using tobacco. Of what earthly use are such laws, 
when the parents of the boys are all the time using 
the mouth-defiling substance and setting them such 
a bad example? It seems to me that (notwithstand- 
ing the fact that $600,000,000 worth of tobacco 
was used in the United States last year, and that 
all the counties in Pennsylvania, save six, are 



TOBACCO SLAVE. lltf 

growing the weed, and that $300 an acre is paid 
in Lancaster county for ground to raise it, and it 
is as common to see men smoke and chew, as it is 
to see flies in mid-summer), that the avocation of 
selling it in any form must be distasteful to a sen- 
sitive, well-bred man. He knows that every in- 
ducement he makes by showy windows, or half- 
column advertisements only induces young and 
old men and boys to spend their money for a use- 
less substance. 

LIQUOR AND TOBACCO SELLERS. 

No one engaged in the sale of intoxicants, and 
tobacco can object to my statements. None of 
them dare get up before the community and say, I 
glory in my occupation, I thank God every day 
that he has selected me for this avocation and that 
he has given me health and strength to induce 
(those who have large families dependent upon 
their labor and who are sober) to drink rum or 
chew tobacco, to teach young men and women, 
boys and girls, the use of stimulants and how to 
swallow brandy or gin, and how to destroy tobac- 
co. 

I am glad of my ability to pull them down to de- 
struction, poverty, crime and death, to learn them 
to reel drunken home to the worn-out, affrighted 
wife, to strike, brutalize, crush and ruin her and 
her famih\ 

I am truly glad to see my patrons arrested and 
imprisoned for crimes induced from the liquor I 



120 TOBACCO SLAVE. 

sold them, to see* them reduced from a good condi- 
tion to poverty. 

He cannot lay his head on his pillow at night 
and ask God's blessing on his day's work. He nec- 
essarily must be an atheist. For he is at war with 
mankind and never adds any thing to their comfort. 

POISONED BY HANDLING. 

By all means avoid purchasing fruits, vegetables 
meats or any eatables from anyone who smokes or 
chews tobacco. His filthy nicotine covered hands 
will transmit the poison to an\ r thing he touches 
and the swallowing of the polluted fruits may 
cause a variety of afflictions. 

THE TERMINATION. 

In the foregoing pages I have introduced a bun- 
dle of statistics, incorporated w T ith opinions and 
beliefs, which, as a whole, cannot fail (if read with 
an inquiring spirit) to satisfy anyone that tobacco 
has no business in your hands, pockets, or among 
your band of friends. It is a covert, insiduous dis- 
ease and death-producing substance. Only the 
arch fiend could praise it and its works. Many of 
the facts are jumbled together. Something like a 
basket full of links of a gold chain, which, with a 
little care, can be made into a continuous orna- 
ment. 



TOBACCO SLAVE. 121 

DRUGS IN TOBACCO. 

Under the above heading on page eighty-nine, I 
refer to the immence business of making extracts 
to impregnate the tobacco to give it artificial 
smell, odor and color. If the subject was fully ven- 
tilated you would be horriiied to know the charac- 
ter and quantity of the drugs thus used, and of 
their thus adding other ill effects to the poison of 
the nicotine. The most common smell which you 
perceive when a cigar is ignited is the extract of 
valerian. Wherever eigars are kept, in all boxes or 
cases, the odor of the valerian is apparent, and 
many stupids regard it as the peculiar odor of to- 
bacco. 

TOBACCO. 

The effect of excessive tobacco using is two-fold 
— constitutional and local. It slows the circula- 
tion of the blood, blunts the nervous sensibility, 
and hardens and thickens the tissues of the body ; 
locally it produces malignant ulcers. Of all the 
men who use tobacco, those who use it in order to 
quiet irritable nerves are in the greatest danger, 
They are on the high road to a complete break 
down of the nervous system — nervous prostration. 
Of the inmates of a certain asylum for the insane, 
seven-tenths of the males were excessive tobacco 
users. — Dr. Stickney in St. Louis Magazine. 



122 TOBACCO SLAVE. 



IMPORTANT. 



Hundreds of men, from some cause or other, stop 
the use of tobacco, supposing that they have done 
all that was necessary by thus abandoning the 
weed. To such persons let me say, the ill effects 
never leave entirely the body, and especially the 
rear portions of the throat, except by proper medi- 
cal assistance. I have seen scores of cases of to- 
bacco sore throats, twenty years after its final use. 

HORRIBLE DEATH. 

My friend (James B. W 7 iggin who resides at Cam- 
bridgeport and who keeps a store at No. 17 Brom- 
field St. Boston, and whom I have known for 
nearly a quarter of a century, learning that I was 
about to issue the Tobacco Slave, wrote out for 
me the terrible fate of one of his former compan- 
ions. ' . 

"Dr. C. A. Greene, do you remember that watch- 
man, that was on the premises where I was having 
my work done? It was a curious case. His name 
was Charlie Lauter. When became in to see me, 
he was alwa\ r s smoking. You know that I am 
an amateur doctor; and I think I can "dognose" 
an ordinary case pretty well. I told Charley he 
was smoking too much. 

" Oh nonsense, tobacco never hurt anybody ! V 

Said I. " Charley I can see that } r ou are bringing 
real hard trouble on yourself by smoking." 

"What form will it take? Paralysis, liver-com- 
plaint or what? " 



TOBACCO SLAVE. 123 

" I do not know; but if you do not stop, you 
will suffer." 

He laughed, and said he would risk it. It was 
such a comfort to smoke in the long lonesome 
nights. 

A month later Charlie did not feel well. Said he 
kind o' got cold, he guessed, his throat was hard 
and sore, and his tongue was stiff. He happened 
to go to the right doctor, a man eighty 3-ears old 
with no tobacco stains on him, with hair and 
beard white like silver, and flesh just fresh and 
clear as a baby — much like yours, Doc. 
"Smoke a great deal, don'tyou?" 

"Yes," said Charlie. 
"Never hint } T ou, did it?" 

"No ; smoking never hurt anybody." 

"I guess you will find it has hurt you" said the 
doctor. 

"What is it?" 

He hesitated and did not want to answer, but 
finally he asked the patient : 

" Can 3^ou bear trouble ?" 

"Yes, doctor, what is it ?" 

Then he answered : 

"I wish to tell you. It cannot be concealed 
much longer. You have what many are trving to 
get, 'a smoker's cancer.' " 

"Will it kill me?" 

"Yes." 

".How long can I live ?" 



124 TOBACCO SLAVE. 

" You may live three, you may possibly live six 
months; you cannot live a year." 

There, in a moment, was Charlie Lauter, under 
sentence of death for what 'never hurt anybody.' 

I saw poor Charlie a week later. His cancer had 
broken through each cheek and under his chin, and 
under his tongue. It was an active, eating cancer. 
He was a kind, good man, fifty } r ears old. He suf- 
fered dreadfulh* and had to have his hands tied to 
keep him from tearing his face open. He starved 
to death inside of six weeks. I have met many 
such cases. I consider tobacco a useless vice; a 
hundred per cent solid dirt and degredation, and 
the greatest enemy that the human race has to- 
day." 

MY CONVICTIONS AND POSITION. 

I hate tobacco in all its forms, as I do the arch 
fiend. I never had any inclination or desire to 
put itin my mouth, any more than I would a glass 
of sulphuric acid, and notwithstanding my dislike 
to it, I am compelled to see it and rebreathe the 
impure noxious fumes of men who, on the streets 
seem to take a diabolical pleasure in throwing out 
a volume of the concentrated nastiness just as you 
approach them from behind, on the sidewalks, in 
the city or in the country. No pure air anywhere 
only as you get away from smoking men. When 
the smoke escapes from a mouth full of decayed, 
tartarous teeth, with gums and tonsils ulcerated, 
swollen and inflamed, the fetid, malodorous breath 
is as unbearable as the exhalations from an old, 
neglected sewer. 



TOBACCO SLAVE. 125 

CONCLUSION. 

After many years of stuch r of the above subjects, 
I say advisedly that it takes the major part of a 
year to get the nicotine out of the bod\ T , (after 
stopping its use) and cure the ill effects produced 
by swallowing the poison so continuously, and 
that the throat is the last portion of the system to 
get back to a normal condition. 

Any further information on the subject matter 
will be cheerfully given by addressing the author. 

FINIS. 

And now, with all these accumulated statis- 
tics before the eyes of the immense concourse of 
people who are using tobacco, are there any excuses 
for its continuance? Yet such is the force of bad 
habits, and apathy sucked in with the nicotine, that 
you might as well expect to cleanse a filthy, mire- 
wallowing hog, without the aid of water, as to 
stop some humans from using the weed and killing, 
prematurely, their bodies. 

C. A. Greene, m. d. 

No. 178 Tremont Street, 

Boston, Mass, 



M arvellous! 



Mrs. Dr. E. W. Taylor of 658 Tremont Street, 
Boston (of the firm of Taylor & Colby), who has 
been a prominent practitioner for eighteen years, a 
regular graduate ; understands how to administer 
drugs as well as any other M. D. in America ; could 
not sleep more than one hour at a time for eight 
months; was in bed six long, long w r eary months; 
worst form of dyspepsia with complications; she 
had no appetite; horrible eructations; and thought 
herself at the end of life without any hope of recov- 
ery; exhausted her own and lots of other doctors' 
skill; suffered excrutiating pains. She was placed 
under Dr. Greene's charge on the 10th of April, 
1889, and on the 10 of May, she walked into his 
office and introduced herself; been sleeping naturally # 

Moral : If the above statements are true, then 
you must come to the following conclusions : — 

First : Mrs. Dr. Taylor had swallowed many indi- 
gestible drugs, which, instead of curing her, only 
increased her maladies, as they acted perniciously 
upon the membranes of the stomach and intestines. 

Second : If she (a regular graduate) could not 
cure herself of dyspepsia and other afflictions, then 
she could not cure anyone else similarly diseased. 

Third : If she possessed the same knowledge of the 
administrations of drugs as any other allopathic or 



homoeopathic physician, then no other physician can 
cure dyspepsia. 

Fourth : The quicker mankind understand the 
true condition of affairs, the sooner will all fraudulent 
practices die out, and Omnipathy will assume tri- 
umphantly her proper position, and revolutionize the 
practice of medicine throughout Christendom. 

He does not visit any patients, but cures all the 
afflictions of the body by external applications (on 
the skin) of non-poisonous remedies. No deaths 
among his numerous patients from Dec. 4, 1888, to 
Sept. 4, 1889. 

CATARRH cured for Fifty Cents. . Cure Quick 
for Catarrh sent (prepaid) by mail on receipt of 
Fifty Cents in stamps. Consultation free. 

DR. C. A. GREENE, 

178 Tremont Street - - Boston, Mass. 

A Physician, Surgeon, Oculist, and Aurist sinca 1S4S. 

OMNIPATHIC COLLEGE. 

In answer to the numerous inquiries of my former 
and present patients, and friends of the cause, let 
me say that I hope within two years to erect (on 
grounds in sight of the Unitarian Church in Arling- 
ton, Mass., of which I am a member) buildings for 
collegiate instruction.of Omnipathic methods, and a 
Sanitarium where invalids may be speedily cured 
of their multitudinous afflictions with Omnipathic 
remedials. 

C. A. GREENE, M.D. 



OMNIPATHY 



God never intended the human stomach to be a 
drug shop, but only as a receptacle for food and 
moisture, to be then converted into blood, and it is 
impossible to transform calomel, quinine, morphine 
or arsenic into this life principle. The above is 
Dr. Greene's conviction, after forty-seven years 
of medical practice as a student and physician. If 
you want to be converted, read his work cf forty- 
four pages on Omnipathy. Sent free to you. Send 
your address. 

Dr. Greene was a pupil in the Havves School of 
South Boston, Mass. from 1831 to 1837. He has 
for forty-one years been trying to get money enough 
together to erect a college to teach Omnipathy, 
and in that way revolutionize the practice of med- 
icine in the world. 

He has for forty-one years, treated successfully 
all the multitudinous diseases of the bod\' by exter- 
nal (on the skin) applications of non-poisonous 
remedies. 



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